| By Big Radio News Staff |

Janesville School District’s second summer job fair in as many years could help bring new blood into about two-dozen open teaching positions.

The fair’s coming up at the end of this month. Assistant superintendent and HR director Scott Garner says the district seeks to about 26 teaching vacancies.

The teaching jobs are open at a time when multiple local school referendums failed. Garner says that’s spelled a shakeup in the teaching job market.

He says districts all over Rock County are hoping they can land teachers or other staff who’ve been laid off or left their current school job amid other, neighboring school districts’ financial woes.

Garner says the bulk of teaching positions open now are in special education and at the elementary school level.

He says one new position the school district hopes to fill is a part-time fundraiser. Garner says that position would be paid out of the district’s community fund.

The fundraiser’s main duty would be to help with Bags of Hope, the district’s huge, annual volunteer food drive.

Other positions open include custodial, clerical, paraprofessional, food service and substitute teaching.

The fair runs July 30th from 3 to 6 p.m., and July 31st from 9 a.m. to noon. That’s at Marshall Middle School at 25 South Pontiac Drive.