Nine years ago, 9.2% of Philadelphia teachers held emergency certification. In the 2022-23 school year, the last year for which state data are available, that percentage more than doubled, to 22.4 ...

number, 1,300 are in teacher licensure programs. In the last fiscal year, WGU recommended for licensure nearly 200 new ...

The studies compare the performance of emergency hires with the ... in the classroom of an expert mentor teacher while candidates are completing credentialing coursework. These models have been ...

With this pathway, candidates can be placed as student teachers in a mentor’s classroom or work in a classroom or program relevant to their credential such as a paraprofessional or emergency permit ...

They are also four times more likely to learn from a teacher with emergency credentials and nearly twice as likely to learn from a beginning teacher than in districts serving primarily white ...