DISTRICT DESPERATELY NEEDS SUBSTITUTES ADMINISTRATORS ASK PUBLIC TO FILL TEACHING GAP.Byline: KAREN MAESHIRO Staff Writer PALMDALE -- Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley school administrators put out an urgent call Thursday for people to become substitute teachers to address a shortage of classroom help. On some days, officials said, school districts are unable to bring in substitutes for as many as 40 percent of absent teachers. In the Palmdale School District The Palmdale School District is a school district that serves a major part of the city of Palmdale, California (USA). The Palmdale School District was first formed in 1888. Approximately 28,000 students are enrolled in the Palmdale School District. on Thursday, for instance, 41 classrooms lacked substitutes, officials said. "It's an extreme shortage," Keppel Union School District Superintendent District Superintendent may be:
If a substitute in unavailable, an administrator -- principal, assistant principal, curriculum specialist or someone else with a teaching credential A United States teaching credential is a basic multiple or single subject credential obtained upon completion of a bachelor's degree and prescribed professional education requirements. -- must put aside his or her own duties to take over the classroom, officials said. If no credentialed staffer is available, students are dispersed to other teachers, at times increasing class sizes to as many as 40 students, officials said. "You end up with compromised instruction," Wagner said. Administrators from eight Antelope Valley school districts held a news conference to raise awareness about the problem and encourage the public to consider subbing. The California Commission on Teacher Credentialing California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CCTC) is an independent agency created in 1970 by the Ryan Act and is the oldest of the autonomous state standards boards in the nation. The mission of the CCTC is to facilitate the credentialing of California's teachers. requires substitute teachers to pass a basic skills test, have a bachelor's degree and pass a fingerprint clearance from the Department of Justice. If an applicant does not have a bachelor's degree, some districts will accept 90 semester units from a regionally accredited accredited recognition by an appropriate authority that the performance of a particular institution has satisfied a prestated set of criteria. accredited herds cattle herds which have achieved a low level of reactors to, e.g. college or university. The pay ranges from $105 to $160 a day, depending on the type of assignment. There is flexibility in the job because substitutes can name their preferred grade level, school and days to work. The shortage of substitutes is blamed on a number of factors, including a shortage of regular teachers and the switch some districts made from year-round to traditional calendars. When districts had been on a year-round schedule, there was a ready pool of teachers who were off-track and available to substitute.Half of Lancaster's 18 schools are on a traditional calendar. The substitute teacher pool is being further depleted de·plete tr.v. de·plet·ed, de·plet·ing, de·pletes To decrease the fullness of; use up or empty out. [Latin d because the best of subs are being hired to fill teaching positions that are vacant because of a shortage of regular teachers. Exacerbating the problem are new laws New Laws: see Las Casas, Bartolomé de. that require teachers to get more training and professional development, thus taking them out of the classroom, officials said. karen.maeshiro@dailynews.com (661) 267-5744 CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Linda Wagner, superintendent of Keppel Union School District, speaks as Sue Page, superintendent/principal of Gorman Joint School District, and Robert Hughes Robert Hughes may refer to:
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