Superintendent blames Louisiana's teacher certification backlog on lack of manpower
With only a few full-time employees handling teacher certification, Louisiana faces a backlog of more than 7,000 applications.
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With only a few full-time employees handling teacher certification, Louisiana faces a backlog of more than 7,000 applications.
Superintendent Cade Brumley appeared Monday before the state Senate Education Committee to share details on why certifications take up to two months to approve.
Reading skills for more than half of Louisiana’s kindergarten through third-grade students were below grade level last fall.
BATON ROUGE, La. - While Louisiana has won national praise for its use of top-flight textbooks and other materials in public school classrooms that pattern has dropped in the past