California issued 18% more teaching credentials last school year, compared with the previous year, but education experts remain only cautiously optimistic. The uptick comes after two years of declines ...
January 29, 2026 - In 1985, Merryl Goldberg went to the Soviet Union and met The Phantom Orchestra. To help them she made up a secret code, hidden in sheet music. The California reading instruction ...
SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The California Commission on Teacher Credentialing continues to approve a growing number of teaching credential programs for those who want to ...
The California Commission on Teacher Credentialing agreed this week to create a new teaching credential for pre-kindergarten through third grade that will require teacher candidates to show they are ...
California’s newly approved state budget allows teacher candidates to skip two of the tests that had been required to earn a teaching credential if they take approved coursework. Teacher candidates no ...
The credentialing commission gets alerted to arrests and/or convictions by the Department of Justice and when someone ...
Just when California’s teacher shortage seemed to be easing, it got worse. A seven-year increase in the number of new teacher credentials issued by the state ended last year with a 16% decline, ...
In eight of San Diego County’s 42 school districts, more than one out of five classes were taught by a teacher without the proper credential for the course they’re teaching or by a teacher for whom no ...
Marisa Silvestri listens to student Oscar de la Torre during her Ethnic Studies Class at Santa Monica High School in Los Angeles. Photo by Lauren Justice for CalMatters On a rainy Friday afternoon at ...
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