There is much discussion of late about the significant challenges that schools face with hiring staff for the 2021-22 school year and implementing COVID recovery initiatives. Despite some media reports of teachers and principals leaving the workforce because of COVID, there is evidence that retention rates remain consistent with pre-pandemic levels. Unfortunately, it is challenging to get a clear and timely picture about the staffing challenges schools face as comprehensive data on the supply and demand of school personnel is generally only available long after the fact. In this research brief, the authors describe their findings about the staffing challenges faced by various kinds of school districts endeavoring to hire different school personnel in Fall of 2021. The authors viewed job postings in the Fall of the school year as reasonable proxies for shortage areas; the underlying assumption is that districts would have liked to have filled these positions prior to the start of the school year either through finding the right staff member before the start of the year, or by retaining staff.