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Stimulus Funds to Stem Teacher Shortage
on March 30, 2009
As the country surges with layoffs and older groups look for new jobs, New Jersey legislators plan to help math and science professionals make a transition to education through a program that would certify them to teach, The Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
The proposal approved on March 16 by the Assembly and Senate aims to address the shortage of math and science teachers and return unemployed residents to the workforce through an 18-month pilot program.
"It will put more teachers in our schools who have specific qualifications as far as life experience in the areas of math and science," said Assemblyman Gary Schaer (D., Passaic), one of the bill's co-sponsors.
With the experience and knowledge these professionals bring to the table, Schaer said, the certification process will be an abbreviated version of the current one, in which an applicant must take a qualifying exam, the Praxis, and have a state-mandated number of math and science credits.
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