Why all the changes to the certification requirements?
Many of the regulations in place today trace their evolution to the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) act. The act required school districts to ensure that all of their teaachers were highly qualified by 2006. Pennsylvania already had a tougher standard in some respects (see Chapter 354, Section 22 of Title 22) but with NCLB school districts couldn’t get by with teachers who were teaching outside of their certification area (usually teachers in middle school holding an elementary ed certificate). To address this, PA’s approach was to lower the standard of certification so these teachers could get certified. The first step toward this happened on November 14, 2002, when the Pennsylvania State Board of Education passed a resolution that allowed all current holders of teaching certificates to add secondary or middle-level certificates simply by passing the corresponding PRAXIS exam (the exact wording was “Resolved: That certified teachers in Pennsylvania might add instructional certificate area
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