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Of the positions that schools did manage to ll, close to 2,500 were with people who do
not meet the standard teaching requirements, with the largest share of those being people
whose certi cation is pending. But nearly 740 of these slots were lled by people with
“emergency teaching certi cates,’’ people who lack any actual training in how to teach but
have some professional background in the subject like math or physics.
And that has its own limits, with these certi cates valid for one year and available only
three times to any individual.
e report comes as the state’s three universities formally introduced their “teacher
academy’’ programs designed to provide free tuition for one or more years to those willing
to go into the classroom.
Each of the schools has a slightly di erent approach.

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“My hope is that one day we will be able to pay the teachers
that dedicate so much and are so important to our society and

our country, a better reward than they currently get nancially.”
— UofA President Robert Robbins Gov. Doug Ducey explains a new “teacher
academy” program on September 26 that will
provide college tuition to some to convince them to
go into the classroom.

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