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Jane Eyre

(1,808 posts)
Mon Apr 1, 2013, 10:59 PM Apr 2013

NC Charter School Bill is Very Troubling

There are so many troubling things about Senate Bill 337, an N.C. charter school bill unveiled last week, that it’s hard to know where to start. But this item stands out like a sore thumb: The bill would remove the requirement that at least half of a charter school’s teaching staff be certified, or be college educated.

OK. You thought all the teaching staff at an N.C. public school had to be certified, right? That’s only true of traditional public schools. Current law allows varying levels of certification at a charter school: At least 75 percent of teachers must be certified in kindergarten-5th grade; at least 50 percent in grades 6-12.

Additionally, current law requires that all charter school teachers in grades 6-12 who teach the core subjects of mathematics, science, social studies and language arts “shall be college graduates.”

Senate Bill 337 removes all those requirements.

Sounds crazy, doesn’t it?

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/03/31/3948579/nc-charter-school-bill-is-very.html#storylink=cpy

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NC Charter School Bill is Very Troubling (Original Post) Jane Eyre Apr 2013 OP
And criminal background checks will be optional for charter school teachers Jane Eyre Apr 2013 #1
wow. until now, the certification's been seen as an intellectual hindrance zazen Apr 2013 #2
this is a recipe to wind up with molesters dsc Apr 2013 #3
Call me an elitist, but jeffrey_pdx Apr 2013 #4
look who will be the deciders ..$ lunasun Apr 2013 #5
Schools? More like ALEC indoctrination Centers now. blkmusclmachine Apr 2013 #6
Thinkin' is for snobs. blkmusclmachine Apr 2013 #7
That's because the goal of such schools is profit, not education Doctor_J Apr 2013 #8
dumb down the population - why do these people hate america? leftyohiolib Apr 2013 #9
Why does CRK7376 Apr 2013 #10

zazen

(2,978 posts)
2. wow. until now, the certification's been seen as an intellectual hindrance
Mon Apr 1, 2013, 11:18 PM
Apr 2013

At RCHS, the state's top and very progressive charter high school, most of the teachers have master's degrees and many have PhDs, but despite college teaching experience, a lot weren't certified. I know colleges of ed well, and I don't think certification adds much to PhDs with teaching experience except a bureaucratic hurdle. And I know the school experienced/s it as a hurdle. 'Nuf said.

However, it's clear from the crazy GOP in our state that they're not worried about preventing PhDs with years of experience from teaching in charter schools, but instead interested in pushing more of their destructive agenda.

I'm with you. Now that they're overturning local governmental decisions (I'm waiting for them to find a way to overturn local elections), I think they're entering a new level of scary. Ending background checks? FFS.

dsc

(52,129 posts)
3. this is a recipe to wind up with molesters
Mon Apr 1, 2013, 11:39 PM
Apr 2013

often child molesters are finally banned from teaching by having their certifications revoked. NOw they can apply at these schools, won't have their records checked, and teach away while molesting.

jeffrey_pdx

(222 posts)
4. Call me an elitist, but
Mon Apr 1, 2013, 11:49 PM
Apr 2013

Shouldn't all high school teachers be college graduates? Does anyone really want their senior in h.s., hoping to go to a good college and do well, to have a teacher with little to no more education than they do?

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
5. look who will be the deciders ..$
Tue Apr 2, 2013, 12:43 AM
Apr 2013

The bill takes authority away from the State Board of Education and creates a separate governing board for charters that allows it to adopt its own rules and regulation – something legal scholars are already denouncing as unconstitutional. Board members would be selected by the governor and legislative leaders - currently all Republicans – and there is no bar to those with financial or other interests in for-profit charters from serving.

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/03/31/3948579/nc-charter-school-bill-is-very.html#storylink=cpy#storylink=cpy

 

Doctor_J

(36,392 posts)
8. That's because the goal of such schools is profit, not education
Tue Apr 2, 2013, 07:36 AM
Apr 2013

and just like with US Health Care, it will be expensive, hugely profitable, and completely useless.

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