State May Ease Alternate-Route Rules for Charter-School Teachers

Education Department provision would provide more flexibility in hiring, training.

The Christie administration has proposed easing some of the state’s teacher-certification rules for charter schools, saying the move would give the schools more flexibility in hiring. The provision, which is tucked deep within the administration’s Professional Licensure and Standards Code for NJ Teachers proposed new administrative code for teacher licensure], would essentially give charter schools their own alternate route similar to the state’s long-established and popular “alternate route” process for hiring public-school teachers who did earn a traditional education degree in college. The proposal, which is now before the state Board of Education, is facing some resistance from the state’s dominant teachers union, among others. But it …

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