NC community colleges to offer quicker path to elementary teacher licensure | Eastern NC Now

The North Carolina Board of Community Colleges recently approved a policy that makes it easier for bachelor-degree holding college graduates to obtain a teacher license and become elementary-school educators.

ENCNow
    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the Carolina Journal. The author of this post is David Bass.

    The North Carolina Board of Community Colleges recently approved a policy that makes it easier for bachelor-degree holding college graduates to obtain a teacher license and become elementary-school educators.

    The move is designed to increase the number of teachers in public schools after a pandemic-induced shortage has developed in recent years.

    "North Carolina community colleges are making it easier and more affordable to become an elementary school teacher in your community," said N.C. Board of Community Colleges interim president Dr. Bill Carver in a statement. "We are committed to supporting the needs of the state through education programs that quickly and appropriately prepare graduates for vital classroom responsibilities."

    The teacher licensure program is slated to be available at five community colleges - Alamance, Central Piedmont, Fayetteville Technical, McDowell Technical, and Western Piedmont. The applications from each college must be approved by the State Board of Education before the new programs can be implemented.

    "The new program for bachelor-degree graduates to receive a teacher license at five North Carolina community colleges is a good step in the right direction," said Dr. Robert Luebke, director of the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation. "It helps address the growing teacher shortage in a manner that students will find flexible and affordable. Kudos to our state community college system. Once again, they see a need and are taking steps to meet it."

    A report released by the N.C. Department of Public Instruction in early February showed there were 5,540 instructional vacancies on the first day of the 2022-2023 school year across all school districts.
Go Back

HbAD0

Latest State and Federal

Cheryl Hines. Dennis Quaid. Nicki Minaj. All became associated with the Trump administration. What happened next?
A federal grand jury in North Carolina has indicted former FBI Director James Comey on two charges related to making threats against President Donald Trump.
Their goal was simple: to put a Planned Parenthood in every mailbox in America.
Treasury officials allege these groups pose as humanitarian entities while covertly siphoning donations to Hamas.
President Donald Trump has publicly floated regime change and other aggressive actions toward Cuba.
With a new roadside plaque unveiled in Ellerbe on April 23, legendary wrestler and local resident André René Roussimoff is finally getting the formal recognition fans believe he deserves.
Following a string of attacks, critics are calling for denaturalizations. It's not that simple.
The solution is not to legalize the problem; it is to enforce the law consistently and deter future illegal immigration.
The teachers union is pushing to cancel school on May 1 as Chicago public schools continue to report dismal student proficiency rates.

HbAD1

Mission accomplished on sending inspiration from the dark side of the moon.
Two years ago, new media brought President Trump back to the White House. What happened?
Victims’ advocates, prosecutors, law enforcement officials, and families impacted by violent crime gathered Tuesday at the North Carolina State Archives building in Raleigh to recognize National Crime Victims’ Rights Week and honor those affected by crime across North Carolina.
The POLITICO poll found that almost half of respondents think Hollywood players should "be less vocal with their political beliefs."
"They help cultivate a radical hate America agenda, and we can't afford that same toxic ideology in America's War Department.”

HbAD2

Tax Day is a week away, and the reports are in: North Carolinians are winning big with record-setting tax returns thanks to President Trump and Republicans' Working Families Tax Cuts.
“It is a trust fund, a piece of the American economy for every child that they will be able to take out when they are 18.”
For most of her life, Zofia Cheeseman built her life and schedule around being a gymnast until a health scare forced her to look at her life off the mat.
"We could very well end up having a friendly takeover of Cuba."
You can't make this up. If you turned this script into Hollywood, they'd say it's too on the nose.
"Alaska native" firms, most often in Virginia, were paid $45 billion in Pentagon contracts thanks to DEI law.
Small cities rarely make headlines. Their struggles - fiscal mismanagement, leadership vacuums, the slow erosion of public trust - play out in school gymnasiums and wood-paneled council chambers, witnessed by a handful of residents and largely ignored by the world outside.

HbAD3

 
 
Back to Top