Sentences with phrase «unlicensed teachers»
"Unlicensed teachers" refers to individuals who do not possess the required legal certification or license to teach in a specific location or educational institution. Full definition
A citywide teaching shortage had caused the Board of Education to relax the hiring rules, enabling Stuyvesant's principal to hire unlicensed teachers like Simion.
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Stung by a newspaper probe that found thousands of unlicensed teachers in city classrooms, Chicago school leaders announced a crackdown last week.
Unfortunately, due to poor working conditions, some students with disabilities are taught by unlicensed teachers and do not get the instruction they need in order to progress.
The board authorized contracts with the vendors last month to provide classes for an estimated 12,000 unlicensed teachers now working in the city's classrooms, said Joyce R. Coppin, the supervision superintendent for the district's Center for Recruitment and Professional Development.
In Kansas, the state board of education passed a measure in July allowing unlicensed teachers to work in six «innovative coalition» districts.
In the past, Senator Tillman has used a personal anecdote to justify his view that public charter schools should be allowed to hire unlicensed teachers as long as they had college degrees and that the very notion of teacher certification is unnecessary.
High rates of inexperienced and unlicensed teachers moved to charter schools, but among regularly licensed teachers changing schools, charter movers had higher licensure test scores than other moving teachers, and they were more likely to be highly experienced.
Private schools are also free to use any curriculum they see fit, employ untrained, unlicensed teachers and conduct criminal background checks only on the heads of schools.
Results indicate that charter schools were drawing relatively qualified and effective licensed teachers, but that they were also drawing a high rate of less qualified, unlicensed teachers.
Although most U.S. teachers are certified, for example, black students are more than four times as likely (PDF) as white students to attend schools where uncertified and unlicensed teachers are concentrated.