Alternative certification for schoolteachers is booming: More than one out of every five new teachers is alternatively certified, and nearly every state allows teachers to forgo traditional ...

Lisa Ashmore became a teacher in Texas despite failing to meet one of the most basic requirements - having a bachelor's degree from an accredited university. Ashmore got her degree from Louisiana ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- As school districts across the country continue to grapple with a teacher shortage, Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) is ramping up efforts to recruit, retain and grow ...

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) — Throughout the Lowcountry and nationwide, schools are facing teaching shortages. Alternative teaching certification programs- of which there are multiple options- are ...

In “What’s the Alternative to a Well-Prepared Teacher?”—just published by the National Education Policy Center—my friends and colleagues Chris Goering and Bill McComas criticize the Arkansas Teacher ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- New York is investing nearly $14 million in workforce training programs at a dozen colleges to help mold the future educators of the state. On Friday, Gov. Kathy Hochul ...

Jack Oliver had a bachelor's degree in business management and two decades of technical training in the Coast Guard when he decided he wanted to teach in Maryland public schools. But to become a ...

A new national report credits alternative teacher certification programs for effectively filling teacher shortages. The report, released in September by the Dallas-based National Center for Policy ...

With public schools facing a dearth of teachers and traditional teacher-training programs struggling to reverse a long-declining enrollment trend, for-profit companies offering “alternative ...

ODESSA, TX (KWES) - ECISD provides an online info session for a new alternative certification program for teaching in Odessa. The event takes place Feb. 21 from 5-6 p.m. at the ECISD Special Education ...

As the local economy remains sluggish, officials at Lone Star College-Montgomery are seeing a jump in enrollment for the school’s alternative teaching certification program. Lovelyn Jeans, a former ...