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Dear 0143, Almost all the schools serving children in the tax credit program are non-profits. Further, the amount that children get under this program is a maximum $3,950 under the law. Even if a school was for profit, it can't make any under that amount. Do you believe that public schools always use certified teachers? Are you familiar with the practice concerning substitutes? Are you aware that to be a substitute, not only do you not need to be certified, you don't have to be a college graduate? Here is an excerpt from a Gannett news article that you might find of interest on the topic: ‘Dirty little secrets in education’ 10-month investigation reveals inequities in educational system By FREDREKA SCHOUTEN EXCERPT The lagging academic performance of poor and minority students is one of the tragedies of American education. School officials have spent two decades talking about the need to close the achievement gap, but the average black 17-year-old still does math only as well as a 13-year-old white student. Teaching quality is clearly a factor. Yet poor and minority students — those who need the most help — are taught by the least experienced and least qualified teachers, a 10-month investigation by Gannett News Service found. Nearly six out of 10 principals at mostly black schools fill long-term teaching vacancies with substitutes, who generally lack even basic teaching qualifications. And more than half the nation's black and Hispanic middle-school students are taught key subjects like math and English by teachers who did not minor in either field in college. In Florida, more than six of 10 principals at schools where at least half the students are minorities said they fill long-term teacher vacancies with substitutes. Poor secondary-school students in Florida are almost seven times as likely as their richer peers to be taught core academic subjects by teachers who lack even state certification in those fields. Those inequities outrage Karen Harvey of Palm Beach County, Fla. Her son's ninth-grade English and social studies classes at Pahokee Middle-Senior High School were taught by substitutes for the entire 2001-02 school year. That's because school officials failed to lure enough qualified teachers to Pahokee, a predominantly black farming community 40 miles and a world away from the yacht clubs and palm-lined boulevards of coastal towns like Palm Beach. ."I don't have a problem with aides filling in for a short period of time, but it was a problem when somebody who doesn't know the subject turns around and teaches my child," Harvey said. Substitutes need only 30 credit hours - less than two years of college education - to teach at the Pahokee school. "My kids are being herded through," Harvey said. "They are not being taught."
and LARRY BIVINS
Gannett News Service
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