Nationwide, only 4
percent of alternative programs offer college - level work; Phoenix has had several years in which every graduate went on to post-secondary education.
Teachers in the residency program spend an average of about 1,300 hours in the classroom in student teaching, more than the average number completed in nearly 90
percent of the alternative programs in the state.
Asked about the fact that only 13
percent of alternative programs are charter - run, Golden noted that charters only make up 6 percent of schools nationwide.
Not exact matches
Thirty
percent of the traditionally trained teachers, 10 to 15
percent of teachers prepared in five - year teacher preparation
programs, and 60
percent of those prepared in truncated
alternative programs leave the profession by their third year.
More than 60
percent of teachers who started jobs in low - income schools via the
alternative - preparation
program Teach For America were still teaching two years later, a report says.
Since the cost
of replacing a teacher is estimated at 30
percent of salary and benefits, a high - quality mentoring
program offers a far less expensive
alternative.
Only six
percent (6 %)
of first - career entrants in New Jersey received certification through an
alternative certification
program.
Five
of the six New York City high schools participating in Project S.M.A.R.T. (School Mediator
Alternative Resolution Team) had a 45 to 70
percent reduction in suspensions for fighting during the
program's first year
of operation.
Alternative routes to licensure outside of higher education: According to a 2010 U.S. Department of Education report, 8 percent of teacher preparation programs were designated as «alternative, not based in institutions of higher education,» provided instead by for - profit or nonprofit org
Alternative routes to licensure outside
of higher education: According to a 2010 U.S. Department
of Education report, 8
percent of teacher preparation
programs were designated as «
alternative, not based in institutions of higher education,» provided instead by for - profit or nonprofit org
alternative, not based in institutions
of higher education,» provided instead by for - profit or nonprofit organizations.
The vast majority
of alternative programs — 87
percent — are run by traditional school districts not charters.
Michael McKibben
of the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) reports that ethnic minorities compose 46
percent of those entering
alternative programs; 27
percent are males who want to teach in elementary schools - three times the normal rate.
Only 21
percent of districts post job openings on websites
of alternative certification / preparation
programs.
In addition, it's an unfortunate consequence
of the inflexible, high accountability targets many states set (like a 95
percent student attendance rate even for
programs serving chronic truants) that when an
alternative school opens its doors to students like Ed and Dario, the school itself risks sanctions.
The California Teacher Corps, which represents the state's 70
alternative certification
programs, has reported that after five years, more than 80
percent of teachers coming from
alternative programs are still on the job.
Thirty - five
percent of U.S. teachers report having first had careers outside
of education, and more than two in five entered the classroom through an
alternative preparation
program, according to a 2010 survey by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation in Princeton, N.J.
The number
of alternative programs nationwide has skyrocketed, rising from 70
programs in the 2000 - 2001 school year to 658 in 2011, according to the U.S. Department
of Education, and these
programs now make up 31
percent of all teacher preparation
programs in the nation.
No more than 10
percent of the state's funds can be spent on state activities, such as reforming special education and regular education teacher certification (including recertification) or licensing requirements and carrying out
programs that establish, expand, or improve
alternative routes for state certification
of special education teachers.
Among
alternative preparation
programs 36
percent of those enrolled pursuing special education credentials; 29
percent elementary education; 17
percent science and math; and about 5
percent in English, world languages and social sciences.
Federal data from the 2009 — 10 academic year indicate that 12
percent of individuals enrolled in teacher preparation
programs were in
alternative programs.94
As
of three working days before school starts for kids, officials said, 27
percent of 1,650 new teachers were from
alternative education
programs.
One
of them last year — it was in the 2007 State
of the Union, he announced the 20 - in - 10
program, which is to reduce traditional gasoline use; replace it — replace 20
percent of it with renewable or
alternative fuels within 10 years.