American Samoa's Governor has asked volunteers to fill teacher vacancies at public schools as a short-term fix for the territory's teacher shortage.
Lolo Matalisa Moliga has asked for the volunteers to fill in for two to three weeks until the Education Department has processed new recruits from Samoa.
The Governor says he only learned of the teacher shortage last week, and isn't happy that no-one from the department approached him to ask for help.
The Director of Education, Vaitinasa Dr Hunkin Finau, says the shortage is an annual problem because some teachers abandon their jobs without giving any word.
However, Governor Lolo says he can't accept that the Education Department didn't foresee the shortage.
