Help Wanted

Filed under: General — Leo Casey

Can’t meet all of the requirements for your teaching license?

No problem, says the Department of Education. Go to the Leadership Academy, and become a principal.

Don’t take our word for it. Read Sam Freedman’s education column in today’s New York Times, Inexperienced but Trained.

It tells the story of the new principal of P.S. 7 in the Bronx, trained by the Leadership Academy.

After four years as a teacher, with the time window allowed for obtaining the Masters Degree required for permanent licensure about to close, the new principal entered the Leadership Academy.

She will now be a principal, with a new clock for the Masters Degree, without ever having completed that requirement for a teacher’s license.

Perhaps when this clock runs out, she can move on to a superintendent’s position.
With a little bit of luck and good timing, Tweed can ensure she can retire with a healthy pension — and complete her Masters Degree in retirement.