CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A skills test required of most prospective teachers would disappear, under a recommendation from the State Board of Education on Thursday.
Board members made the recommendation Thursday, in the hopes that removing the test requirement would result in more people entering the teaching profession as teacher turnover hits new highs. That was after officials with the state Department of Public Instruction said passage of the test wasn’t correlated with higher quality teaching metrics.
The board adopted the cancellation of this test at the state’s public teacher colleges as a part of its legislative agenda, meaning lawmakers would have to ultimately agree to it. While the board voted 8-3 to make the recommendation, its three Republican members voted against it, including Lt. Gov Mark Robinson and Treasurer Dale Folwell.
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