David Boies plans to strip teachers of due process rights state by state.

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20. Many schools have experience with this...

Here in Florida, we had a big push for "alternative certification" a few years ago. We recruited NASA scientists, engineers from the defense industry, science teachers from health professions, and math folks from accounting to actuaries. The actual results was that it was a poor investment. It costs a district several thousand dollars per teacher to get folks into the basics of teaching even with simple orientation programs.

The number of successful professionals who transferred in was pretty low at the end of 5 years. Even when they knew their content, they didn't know school curriculums. Scientists took vertebrate morphology, but didn't have a clue about sex education; engineers knew applied calculus, but had never seen a Cuisenaire rod. That sort of stuff was typical.

Many applied professions didn't do well at necessary teacher skills like communication with parents, collaboration with other teachers, classroom management, and planning. The recruits often dropped out as fast as they were brought in. That's likely the reason for all the hoops to jump through. It's simply a matter of where you put your dollars.

As a consequence, many districts cut back their attempts to recruit outsiders because it was not as useful as taking a successful teacher (like a 3rd grade teacher) and turning them into a math or science teacher with a concentrated masters or inservice program. The crazy thing is that once teachers were taught calculus or get a science major, many were hired away (about half) at bigger salaries because of the additional training the district pair for to get them into STEM!

Even though there is still a place for recruiting applied professionals (especially in some AP and IB programs), it has not proven cost effective for most school districts. Even so, we still have active programs in Florida and universities are sometimes funded to recruit and retain professionals for STEM and high need areas.