Sentences with phrase «emergency permits»

In all of California, more than 34,000 teachers served on emergency permits in 1998â $ «99, the last year for which complete data are available.

The state of emergency declared by Cuomo allows the Department of Environmental Conservation to issue emergency permits for protective measures against high Lake Ontario waters, and Cuomo also created a rapid response team, a flood information hotline and deployed 20 National Guard members to help in flood reactions.

Getting better - qualified teachers into California's classrooms will require improved teacher education, higher salaries for public school teachers and administrators, and elimination of emergency permits over the next five years, a state panel argues in a report issued last week.

Ortt is assisting his constituents with the DEC emergency permit process and also announced that the State Senate passed legislation on Tuesday that would make emergency funding immediately available for communities along Lake Ontario affected by the flooding.

A number of states greatly expanded emergency permits to allow hiring of untrained teachers to meet these demands — which is the classic definition of shortage.

Los Angeles, despite its ambitious program, still had almost 6,000 teachers, or 19 percent, working on emergency permits and waivers in 1996.

About one - third of the credentials issued by the California Teacher Credentialing Commission this past year were for teachers on the equivalent of emergency permits, who lacked training for their assignments and were not in any structured preparation program.

The team will rapidly review all emergency permit applications received.

Last year, the state granted approximately 500 emergency permits to unqualified teachers to fill vacancies in those subjects.

When large numbers of teachers can not pass the tests, schools are almost compelled to hire them on emergency permits.»

«I was then hired on the spot on an emergency permit.

She has been teaching full time on an emergency permit for two years because she still must pass the multiple - choice section of the test.

About half of emergency credentialed teachers leave teaching within three years, usually to be replaced by more of the same (emergency permits must be renewed each year, up to a five - year maximum).

Far more Los Angeles teachers work on emergency permits than on district internships; in 1998â $ «99, about 1,900 were working as district interns.

At the time, Oakland claimed to have such difficulty finding qualified candidates that 16 percent of its teachers were working on emergency permits and waivers.

District officials told him that he needed to enroll in a state - approved teacher - preparation program, which he would eventually have to complete, in order to have a chance of teaching full time in the fall on an emergency permit.

«We have 37,000 teachers on emergency permits, partially on account of subject - matter concerns.

In cases where uncredentialed teachers are granted an emergency permit to teach, policymakers, schools, and educators must commit to ensuring appropriate and timely development for these new teachers.

Texas's current policy puts students at risk by allowing teachers to teach on an emergency permit for up to three years without passing required subject - matter licensing tests.

Texas asserted that teachers on temporary permits may teach up to two years, and teachers on emergency permits may teach up to three years.

The state also allows teachers who have not met licensure requirements to teach under an emergency permit for up to three years.

«There are a lot of really qualified people out there waiting to teach and they are either in a situation where they have an emergency permit, or they're teaching on a substitute license, or in some cases the school systems have offered them jobs and then pulled the job offer back because they don't want to deal with the paperwork,» Meredith says.