In the late ’90s and the early 2000s, Texas was facing the familiar problem of teacher shortages across the state. To address ...

Support the Tribune now for your chance to win a two-night Fort Worth experience. The small district’s apprenticeship program lets aspiring teachers earn a bachelor’s degree and teacher certification ...

The associate teacher program gives CCISD paraprofessionals opportunity to become a certified to tackle teacher shortage.

Most new teachers in Texas schools have no teaching experience on the first day they set foot in the classroom. Over the past two decades, the number of students graduating from Texas’ four-year ...

Fifth graders at Jacobs Well Elementary School in Wimberley lineup at the door as they prepare to walk back to their classroom from the science lab on September 4, 2020. (Jordan Vonderhaar For The ...

Alternative-certification programs have long been thought of as one solution to teacher shortages, but a new analysis shows that the number of candidates completing those programs has declined over ...

This story will be updated. Texas education leaders are bracing for what could happen should the state’s largest teacher preparation program lose its accreditation. But such a drastic step — if it ...

The Educative Teacher Performance Assessment was designed to better prepare new teachers, but faced pushback from people who thought it would create barriers for people of color to enter the ...

Texas Teachers of Tomorrow, the state's largest teacher preparation program, failed seven of nine state standards, according to a recent state audit. Michael Hogue/Staff artist The largest teacher ...