Dive Brief:
- A new report from the Education Commission of the States analyzes state-level policy related to education, finding that nearly all states need to update and revise their rules and regulations in order to create a career-ready workforce and improve education overall.
- Dr. Aims McGuinness, the report's author, also recommended that individual states create their own policy leadership process, in order to garner agreement from interested parties that can help facilitate long-term goal development and realization, as well as entities that can carry out related strategies.
- One way to inspire state action, the report notes, is through fear, as one key takeaway states that the creation of "governance systems for the future is doable provided state leaders recognize the consequences of not acting."
Dive Insight:
The Education Commission of the States also recently released a separate report that examined how many board-certified teachers are in each state, and what resources exist to help them become certified. It found that more than 112,000 teachers in all 50 states and the District of Columbia were indeed board-certified, and that 10,000 more would be certified by the year 2017. North Carolina had more teachers with board certification than any other state.
That report also presented summarized findings corresponding to legislation that has been put in place in various states related to teachers becoming certified. In Utah, new legislation addresses fee reimbursement and supplemental pay for board-certified teachers.
