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DEL.ICIO.USCommittee wants to ease path toward teaching
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The House Education Committee passed a bill today that would allow professionals with advanced degrees to teach in high school before first gaining full certification.
House Bill 603 would help address the state’s teacher shortage, one of the sponsors, Rep. Karla Drenner (D-Avondale Estates), told the committee.
The Georgia Professional Standards Commission, the state organization overseeing teacher certification, opposes the bill.
The state already provides ways for career-changers to become certified teachers, the commission’s executive secretary, F.D. Toth, told the committee.
“I just don’t see where it’s needed,” Toth said.
The bill says a person holding a master’s degree, a doctoral degree or a juris doctor degree could begin teaching while taking up to three years to acquire certification.
The bill now goes to the House Rules Committee.
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By Algernon Pitts
March 8, 2007 10:51 AM | Link to this
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