{"id":399440,"date":"2026-07-15T15:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/399440\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T15:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:18:08","slug":"state-needs-higher-standards-for-teachers-and-stronger-evaluations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/399440\/","title":{"rendered":"State needs higher standards for teachers and stronger evaluations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To the editor: I also hope that strong leadership in education can help the children of California (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/newsletter\/2026-07-13\/chabria-monday-politics-newsletter-school-superintendent\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cCalifornia kids still struggle in our schools. Will this change help?,\u201d<\/a> July 13). As a retired teacher with 42 years of experience, this is what I\u2019d like to see:<\/p>\n<p>High standards for colleges that teach education. It is no secret that a teacher or administrator can earn credits at \u201ccolleges\u201d that are basically \u201cpay-and-pass\u201d institutions. This can and does result in a Stanford-educated teacher being told by a poorly educated principal that \u201creading to kids is a waste of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>High standards for teachers. Strive for a fully credentialed teacher in every classroom. Stop issuing <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ctc.ca.gov\/employers\/assignment-resources\/assignment-options\/emergency-long-term\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u201cemergency\u201d credentials<\/a> every time there is a teacher shortage.<\/p>\n<p>Teacher involvement. Intelligent people want to be empowered on the job. Structure school governance so that teachers have a strong role in decision-making.<\/p>\n<p>Strive for valid and reliable evaluations of schools and teachers. Schools can definitely be evaluated, but it can\u2019t be done with a cheap test given to all. Consider effective evaluations such as yearly inspections by experienced educators. Annual portfolios of student work can also reveal much about a child\u2019s growth. Tests can be designed to measure each child\u2019s school progress, but these tests would need to be administered by outside parties. Perhaps retired educators could help with evaluations.<\/p>\n<p>There is much that is wrong with education in California. A lot can be improved with strong leadership and a dose of common sense.<\/p>\n<p>Linda Mele Johnson, Long Beach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: I also hope that strong leadership in education can help the children of California (\u201cCalifornia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,160377,3409,1815,2072,15,160380,3978,160379,160360,4265,160378,90580,10384,315],"class_list":["post-399440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-cheap-test","tag-child","tag-college","tag-editor","tag-education","tag-effective-evaluation","tag-emergency","tag-experienced-educator","tag-high-standard","tag-school","tag-strong-evaluation","tag-strong-leadership","tag-teacher","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}