Have you ever tried to hire 170 people?

I mean, all at once? For a job more complicated than entry-level fast food?

APS short 120 teachers after cheating scandal
[wsb-tv] Chandra Galashar’s child attends Parks Middle School, where the principal and 10 other educators were removed and now face professional disciplinary action.
“We don’t have enough teachers in these schools,” Galashar told Channel 2’s Tom Regan on Thursday.
...[School spokesman Keith] Bromery said the school district currently needs to fill about 120 teacher positions, which is down from 170 vacant positions just two weeks ago, and more jobs are being filled every day.
“The only thing I can tell you (is) as soon as possible. I can’t give you a date, but we’re filling them as we can identify qualified candidates and put them through the process,” Bromery said.

I have three hypotheses. (1) The media are deliberately combining quotes made in different contexts to create the appearance of a continuing crisis situation and a system running out of control. Why? The same reason they have "weather alerts" instead of weather reports. (2) Parents would rather have quantity than quality. (3) Possibly they figure their old teachers were railroaded. The vast majority of the accused educators are black and the public faces of the investigation are white. I don't think that's a factor: I wonder if these parents do.