Sentences with phrase «hire licensed teachers»
The bill also weakened requirements for charter schools to hire licensed teachers and have a racially diverse student body.
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Districts are too often meeting their needs by hiring untrained educators with emergency licenses and by assigning teachers to work outside their subject areas, he said.
By 2008, the highest - poverty schools were actually hiring fewer teachers on temporary licenses than wealthy schools.»
Currently, schools like ours, in an area of documented teacher shortage, are permitted to hire teachers with one - year emergency licenses.
Darling - Hammond wrongly states that the Texas test was a licensing test (actually it was a recertification test given to already hired teachers) and «that it tested both basic skills and teaching knowledge.»
Most good programs are collaborative efforts among state departments of education, which have responsibility to license teachers; colleges and universities that historically have had the responsibility for educating and training teachers; and school districts, which actually hire teachers.
Charter schools ARE public schools: By law, they must adhere to all public education laws, hire appropriately licensed teachers, follow the same curriculum standards as do traditional school districts, take the same standardized, state - wide assessments and are free of tuition and open to all applicants.
Weingarten was hired as a substitute teacher in 1991 and received a «provisional» license in 1993.
On top of the flexibility created by last year's alternative certification law, CSP's bill would give charters where at least half of students are impoverished the ability to hire teachers who are licensed in other states and those who have completed alternative licensure programs in other states and taught for at least two years in high - poverty schools.
Charter schools must hire highly - qualified licensed teachers, just like school districts.
Dale Chu, Assistant Superintendent at the Indiana Department of Education, says those who oppose the change are «conflating» teacher licensing with the schools» hiring processes.
The relaxed regulations permit schools to extend the school day, use funds in ways not designated by the state, hire teachers for positions other than those for which they are licensed and more.
Minnesota's most recent «Teacher Supply and Demand» report [PDF] from the state shows that during 2013 - 14, districts across the state had to hire 3,504 teachers who lacked the necessary licenses for the subjects and the grade levels taught.
The reports show that 86 percent of the DOE's hires from Touro are licensed special education teachers.
Teachers must have received their first hiring in the state no earlier than July 30, 2007 and be completely licensed to teach in the state, without any restrictions.