JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Almost half of first-year teachers in Missouri are working without completing a teaching certification program overseen by the state. Daryl Fridley, the educator preparation ...

It soon may be easier to become a certified teacher in Missouri. The State Board of Education is considering lowering the grade point average requirement for its teaching subject area from 3.0 to 2.5.

The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education believes that lowering a GPA requirement for teachers will improve teacher recruitment and retention without reducing educator quality.

Missouri educators will no longer need a 3.0 grade-point average in their subject area to teach in public schools beginning in July, the State Board of Education unanimously voted Tuesday. The ...

Missouri Program Aims to Address Teacher Shortage and Support Schools with Qualified Substitute Educators “Kelly Education has a longstanding commitment to recruiting and retaining qualified ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The state’s education department is using federal COVID relief money to pay for certification tests for teachers, an effort to help combat the shortage of educators. Until the ...

Alternative certification for schoolteachers is booming: More than one out of every five new teachers is alternatively certified, and nearly every state allows teachers to forgo traditional ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kelly Education, an ...

(KODE & KSN) — It’s time to take a closer look at how school districts check out personnel before they’re hired. All Missouri school districts conduct a background check before hiring a new teacher.

Governor-elect Mike Kehoe stops by the State Board of Education meeting Tuesday. During the meeting, board members unanimously agreed to lower the GPA requirement for teacher certification Missouri ...

TROY, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Kelly Education, the nation’s leading provider of education workforce solutions, announced that it is approved as a vendor by the Missouri Department of Elementary ...