Live from the April Board of Ed

 vote to solicit public comment on proposed amendments to educator licensure regulations

Rouhanifard: discussion across the country on teacher shortages, only had real data more recently from a few states; do we have any data on actual shortages?
Riley: special ed, ESL, not just education: nursing
"Be a little more flexible than we have been in the past, with the understanding that at some point we'll probably tighten back up"
Moriarty: 150 hour internship? model?

• initial or professional license holder can obtain a provisional license in special ed or ESL
• create a new preK-2 license for moderate and severe disabilities
• permit "demonstrate of knowledge" as a way to prepare and maintain students with disabilities for general classrooms
  
• create a new professional license for school nurse

Hills: always leave this conversations asking what's the trade off here?
any reason you want to state, things we want to be concerned about
"don't consider these life-altering massive changes to our education system...what am I missing?"
A: that's why we have this public comment

Canavan: question about the labor shortage
wonder about nurses having to pass the communications MTEL
Seems an unnecessary barrier, given what is happening in the nursing field
"not within regulation" but is written into the law

Moriarty: I advocate for every adult in the building having strength in communication and literacy
adults should regard it as a "development milestone" of third grade reading
(there is literally not basis in psychological development to support this)
does MTEL evaluate that "that's a stretch"
we talk about trauma: what about trauma of not being able to perform at grade level
(what the heck?)

Lombos: not necessarily a labor shortage, but workers not being paid what they are worth, when they are using their feet to leave their professions (to a smattering of applause, which is not a thing that happens often)