The loss: because the deal does not include raising the US debt ceiling or the implementation of longer-term budget cuts, investors will be witnessing another US political showdown in the coming weeks as both these issues are negotiated.

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But that underestimates the problem because it does not include posts filled on short-term contracts or posts filled by teachers who are not specialists in the subject they have been asked to teach.

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