long time guy wrote:
K Effective wrote:
conns7901 wrote:
https://sec1.isbe.net/ELISPublicInquiry/NormalPages/Educators.aspx
You can search anyone's certification on that link.
Cliff notes version, conns, please. Jeebus that thing is archaic.
I was looking for a stat like: 47% of private school teachers hold certificates in their subject matter as compared to 54% of public school instructors.
I just made that up as an example, clearly. I don't think either is true, much less what was originally posted as "MOST are not qualified" to teach.
In CPS 100% of the teachers currently providing instruction are State Board Certified. Majority of the subs are too. That doesn't include charters. The overwhelming majority of their staff is not certified.
As far as Private Schools go I'm comfortable with that assessment.
IF the CPS is 100% certified, I am impressed. That seems impossible in today's school situation, not Covid, but pre-Covid.
But, you made the remark that the majority of private school teachers are not QUALIFIED to teach, which I think is a wholly different accusation than certification. Perhaps you find the two equivalent, I'm not sure they are.
When my wife began teaching here in MI 33 years ago, all teachers had to get state certified and maintain it with continuing classwork, OR obtain their Masters, which she chose to do. Currently, on a staff of seven, all seven are elem. ed graduates and three have MEs.
About twenty years ago, the State removed the requirement for this certification for private schools, and nearly all subsequent faculty members have done almost no continuing class work. I read into the relief from the certification that, down the line, the State would move toward the voucher system similar to Wisconsin, where private schools can get paid from the property taxes collected from the parents; but they would set a prerequisite that all staff must be certified to receive the state money, and thus reduce the number of private schools eligible by a large percentage. Instead, we have seen a rise of the charter schools, which tap into the state money from the highest-paid districts and funnel it through a corporation. I cannot provide an accurate percentage of certified instructors at these schools.