# Turning gross teacher shortage areas list into data The federal government keeps a list of instruction categories where there are teacher shortages in each state, Puerto Rico, and at some other places that I don't need to know about for the project I'm doing right now. Unfortunately the data is in a list, in a word doc. I couldn't find a spreadsheet version of it anywhere, so this is a quick-and-dirty translation to CSV. Here's the data: https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/pol/tsa.html#list