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Article: UPROOTING TEACHER TRAINING THE ISSUE: BILL SEEKS A COMPLETE STATEWIDE OVERHAUL OUR VIEW: PROPOSED CHANGES ARE TOO DRASTIC TO BE DONE SO QUICKLY.(Editorial)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- February 22, 1999
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Two rather important things are wrong with Sen. John Evans' education reform bill, SB 154, which passed the Senate Education Committee earlier this month.
First, it would mandate an almost impossible timeframefor a wholesale reconstruction of Colorado's current teacher preparation system; incredibly, it would require every state-approved program to design a new curriculum based largely on supervised field-based experience and to implement it by July 2000.
Worse, it would make the state's successful system of alternative licensure all but irrelevant, by pressuring school districts to establish two- or four-year apprenticeship programs that could be ...