As the number of uncertified teachers has exponentially increased in Texas, with 52% of new hires now being uncertified, a ...

Teacher certification in Texas was an issue heavily addressed in the major piece of legislation, House Bill 2, passed during the previous legislative session. Out of all the new teachers hired in ...

Allen ISD board members voted last week to apply for a waiver from the Texas Education Agency that would allow it to hire ...

Texas hired more than 43,000 teachers this past school year, but that is a 10% decrease from the year prior as the state continues to struggle with educator shortages since COVID-19.

Students walk down a school hallway. Dallas ISD trustee Ben Mackey says 20% of the district’s new teacher hires lack certification, well below state numbers. Texas’ new state education funding bill ...

Corpus Christi ISD is seeking to delay implementing a state mandate requiring all core subject teachers to be fully certified, which is allowable if approved by the state. The district currently ...

A new state law bans uncertified teachers from teaching core subjects, but HISD will try to delay compliance until 2029.

Job turnover among teachers in Texas remains high after hitting a record in 2023, when more than 13% left their jobs. In 2022, after 11.5% of teachers left, Gov. Greg Abbott commissioned a task force ...