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School officials urge licensure flexibility and pipeline expansion to address teacher shortages
Summary
Frederick County presenters asked the General Assembly to permit alternative licensure pathways, expand incentives for critical shortage areas, and align provisional/renewable licensing with continuing-contract rules to reduce turnover among early-career teachers.
Frederick County Public Schools officials laid out a multi-part request to ease licensure barriers and expand the teacher pipeline, saying the division is losing a disproportionate number of teachers in their first three years.
Chantay Knight, assistant superintendent for teaching, learning and leadership, described proposals that would create alternative pathways into elementary education, expand career-switcher options and bonuses for critical shortage areas…
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