State of state’s teachers is bleak
Report from Center for Future of Teaching and Learning
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An annual report on the status of the teaching profession in California has found severe stresses in the system of hiring and retaining teachers, just at a time when, through budget cuts and layoffs, teachers are being asked to teach larger classes and to do more with less.
“California’s fiscal crisis has so severely damaged the pipeline for recruiting and training new teachers, and for supporting existing teachers, that the quality of the teacher workforce is likely to be at risk for many years to come,” concludes California’s Teaching Force 2010: Key Issues and Trends, published by The Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning
Brown’s education road show today - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
If you can’t make – or weren’t invited to – Tuesday’s two-hour briefing at UCLA on how the budget might affect education, catch the live webcast on the California Channel or www.jerrrybrown.org. With Gov.-elect Jerry Brown moderating and presentations by the Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor, future Department of Finance Director Ana Matosantos, Controller John Chiang and [...]