New Mexico National Guard Members Filling in as Substitute Teachers

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced efforts to temporarily employ National Guard troops and state bureaucrats as substitute teachers and child care workers during a briefing at Sante Fe High School in Santa Fe, N.M., on Jan. 19, 2022. Morgan Lee/AP Photo

New Mexico National Guard members this week started volunteering as substitute teachers amid teacher shortages in the state.

Fifty Guard personnel have received teaching licenses, a spokeswoman for the New Mexico Public Education Department told The Epoch Times in an email.