“Alternative certification programs, such as the Transition to Teaching program in Wichita schools, allow people with degrees in certain content areas to teach for up to two years with a provisional license while they complete education coursework. In the meantime, they are paired with a peer mentor and get help from district mentors and university faculty.
“’We have a shortage of physicians in western Kansas, but we don’t tell nurses and EMTs that they can practice medicine,’ [KNEA’s Mark] Desetti said. ‘We do tuition forgiveness programs, recruit people, we pay them more to bring them out there. … There are solutions already in place.'”
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