All of the state's teacher - preparation programs, whether traditional, university - based ones, or
nontraditional programs like Teach For America, must
train their
candidates in how to use the data system.
Another portion of the law, a mechanism to allow the establishment of
nontraditional training programs in Minnesota, contained the same deadline but was not implemented until January — too late for the most natural
candidate, the local Teach for America (TFA) outpost — to apply.