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July 14, 2015

California's dwindling teacher supply rattling districts' nerves

Some districts are hiring more teachers with provisional credentials.

Katherine Ellison and John Fensterwald

July 12, 2015

Aspire sees opportunity to grow teacher residencies

Charter school system envisions creating a university to grant degrees.

John Fensterwald

June 19, 2015

State to spend a half billion dollars to promote 'teacher effectiveness'

Funding is 50 times what the governor initially proposed in the budget.

Louis Freedberg

May 21, 2015

New California teaching credentials decline for 10th successive year

At the same time, the number of short-term and provisional permits increased.

Katherine Ellison and Louis Freedberg

January 9, 2015

Gov. Brown targets teacher preparation

Gov. Jerry Brown ventured Friday for the first time during his governorship into the challenge of preparing -- and retaining -- teachers. The issue has received relatively short shrift in the raft of reforms being implemented in California schools.

Louis Freedberg

December 2, 2014

Impact of teacher preparation rules unclear

The Obama administration last week announced draft regulations to evaluate the effectiveness of more than 2,000 teacher preparation programs nationwide, but how exactly they would apply to California is unclear.

Louis Freedberg

October 31, 2014

Preparing new teachers to implement reforms

Louis Freedberg

October 9, 2014

Teacher preparation enrollments plummet

Enrollments in teacher preparation programs in California are continuing to decline at a precipitous rate, according to new figures from the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. Between the 2001-02 and 2012-13 school years, enrollments in teacher preparation programs dropped 74 percent.

Louis Freedberg

October 8, 2014

EdSource Report: Preparing effective teachers

The crucial challenges of recruiting, preparing and retaining teachers has gotten short shrift in the reform debates over the last few years, despite the fact that effective teachers will be crucial to the success of a range of current reforms.

Louis Freedberg

July 10, 2014

Military instructors granted PE authorization

After showing up for four rounds of meetings at the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing – and sending 866 letters of opposition to Sacramento last month alone – physical education teachers lost the fight to prevent military instructors from being able to earn a new special teaching authorization in physical education.

Jane Meredith Adams

April 4, 2014

Deal announced on teacher dismissal bill that governor would support

John Fensterwald

February 14, 2014

Commission opposes proposal to authorize military instructors to teach physical education

Jane Meredith Adams

February 13, 2014

Proposal would allow military instructors to teach physical education

Jane Meredith Adams

January 12, 2014

Patchwork approach to Common Core in teacher preparation programs

Kathryn Baron

September 26, 2013

Commission considers performance tests for administrators in training

John Fensterwald