State law requires that all teachers be certified, but thanks to a loophole in state law, districts can delay compliance until the 2029-30 school year. Many have done so, resulting in a full 27% of newly hired teachers who weren\u2019t certified.<\/p>\n
The Heritage Foundation\u2019s Corey DeAngelis, who has been a major critic of the Texas public education system for years, pointed to this as another example of its dysfunction. \u201cThey should be able to figure out this basic requirement, given that the public school system spends nearly $19,000 per student per year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
DeAngelis went on to point out that despite all the back and forth on the issue of teacher certifications, there hasn\u2019t been any evidence that it actually makes any difference in student outcomes. \u201cYou could have a school that\u2019s 100% certified, and still have that school be dangerous to kids,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He went on to point out that legislation has been passed in Texas with the specific purpose of addressing this issue, and yet we still haven\u2019t seen any results. Rather than continuing to tinker around the edges of teacher certification requirements, DeAngelis suggested simply expanding school choice so more parents could choose to put their children in a school with better results. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State law requires that all teachers be certified, but thanks to a loophole in state law, districts can…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[56,66,223,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-313698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-houston","tag-local","tag-news","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}