Bill would expand who could grant a teaching credential

12-02-2009

Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess

Jumping ahead of the expected release today of the Assembly’s version of Race to the Top legislation, Republican Assemblyman Brian Nestande of Palm Desert has introduced three bills of his own. Two deal with alternative ways to bring teachers into the profession. The third would make it slightly easier to get rid of those who end up performing badly. At Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s urging, legislators are considering ways that might improve the state’s shot at a piece of the U.S. Department of Education’s $4.35 billion Race to the Top competition. Nestande’s bills would tangentially address what Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has targeted as the biggest priority of Race to the Top funding: ways to improve teacher performance. (more...)

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