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Teacher Effectiveness
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Credentialing

The California Commission on Teacher Credentialing sets standards for teacher training programs in public colleges and universities, establishes requirements for teacher credentialing, enforces professional practices and disciplines credential holders.
July 15, 2016

Bechtel Foundation awards $10 Million for CSU teacher preparation

Pat Maio
July 8, 2016

Tobinworld closing its Antioch school for special education students

Michael Janofsky
June 14, 2016

Low wages undermine efforts to improve the quality of preschools, federal report says

Preschool teachers paid about half of what kindergarten teachers make.

Michael Collier
April 4, 2016

Number of new math and science teachers declining in California

The state has long struggled with a shortage of math and science teachers.

Pat Maio
March 14, 2016

With state support, what higher education can do to address teacher shortages

Marquita Grenot-Scheyer
March 1, 2016

Debate emerges over state actions needed to ease teacher shortages

An LAO report says Legislature should avoid "broad statewide policies."

Louis Freedberg
February 23, 2016

What California can do to address teacher shortages

Linda Darling-Hammond and Patrick Shields
February 12, 2016

Credentialing commission pursuing plan for new longer term teacher permit

Substitutes filling in for teachers on leave would be able to stay longer.

Louis Freedberg
February 8, 2016

Credentialing commission considers slowing rotation of substitute teachers

The proposal would lift the 30-day limit on substitute teachers' classroom time.

Louis Freedberg
January 18, 2016

Report: Schools increasingly turn to 'underprepared' teachers to fill vacancies

The number of those teachers with has nearly doubled in the past two years.

Louis Freedberg
December 13, 2015

California approves tougher teacher training standards to help mainstreaming

Teacher preparation programs will have new curriculum by 2017-18, the state says.

Jane Meredith Adams
December 3, 2015

Alternative pathways essential to attract more teachers to the profession

Shia Smith
November 17, 2015

Poll: California voters say state must take action to address teacher shortage

The majority describe the shrinking supply of teachers as “very serious.”

Louis Freedberg
November 17, 2015

California's emerging teacher shortage: A Field Poll commissioned by EdSource and the Learning Policy Institute

John Osborn D'Agostino
October 6, 2015

Beginning teachers need support – without having to pay for it

Ellen Moir