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Issue Position: Teacher License Backlog

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2016
Issues: Education

NC has a teacher shortage, and the incumbent Superintendent's poor leadership makes it worse.

Teachers receive only a fraction of their entitled pay until they obtain their licenses from DPI. Unfortunately, under Atkinson, there was a backlog of over 7,000 teachers each waiting for a license from DPI as of March, with some teachers being forced to wait over six months before DPI got their licenses to them.

Each teacher has to pay a fee to cover the cost of obtaining a license. Put another way, that means the incumbent cannot blame budget cuts for her inability to get licenses granted in a timely fashion.

This poor leadership at DPI helps create the teacher shortage in NC. Even the CFO of DPI has admitted that some teachers leave NC as a result.


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