Sen. Doug McCrory, D-Hartford, urged students to apply for the Aspiring Educators Diversity Scholarship Program Credit: Jessika Harkay / CT Mirror CT Mirror’s independent, nonprofit journalism depends ...

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State representatives on Thursday passed a pair of sweeping bills that would aim to make it easier to become a teacher, examine the effects of unfunded education mandates on towns and shift mandated ...

WATERBURY, CT (WFSB) – Three years after the COVID-19 pandemic changed the way schools operated, the education profession continued to grapple with a numbers problem. The State of Connecticut has a ...

Post-Baccalaureate Teacher Certification Program (PBTC) is specifically designed to address the needs of two distinct populations: Experienced educators who want to become licensed in another ...

Alternative certification for schoolteachers is booming: More than one out of every five new teachers is alternatively certified, and nearly every state allows teachers to forgo traditional ...

American schools are facing a teacher shortage crisis, with over half of public schools understaffed. Sixty-four percent of schools report having too few qualified applicants and enrollment in teacher ...

Sen. Doug McCrory, D-Hartford, urged students to apply for the Aspiring Educators Diversity Scholarship Program. JESSIKA HARKAY / CT MIRROR Legislation passed out of the Education Committee last week ...