State reported inflated rate of teachers lacking credentials | California Watch

State reported inflated rate of teachers lacking credentials | California Watch:

State reported inflated rate of teachers lacking credentials

Joanna Lin

U.S. Census Bureau

The rate was startling: Nearly six in 10 teachers at California's lowest-performing schools were not properly credentialed for the classes they led. It's a rate California has worked to shrink for the past six years. It's also a rate that was wrong.
The percentage of teachers and other certificated staff lacking proper credentials was actually 29 percent, not the 58 percent the state reported for the 2005-06 school year. The revelation, sparked by errors in state data