California’s State Senate has passed legislation that will allow low-performing school districts to pay bonuses to attract experienced math and science teachers. Students at the worst-performing schools are more likely to have science and math teachers who are on emergency credentials or who lack the training, experience and specialization to teach the subjects effectively, notes the Los Angeles Times. Students at such schools are disproportionately Latino and African American
“If we ignore the shortage of math and science teachers in these schools, where they are needed the most, we are essentially telling these young people that they cannot be engineers, scientists, nurses and doctors,” Sen. Gloria Romero, author of the measure tells the Times. ”This is just simply wrong.”
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