For-Profit Teacher Training

Jeffrey Miron

Many public schools face persistent teacher vacancies. Lacking fully certified candidates, they often hire uncertified teachers instead.

Evidence from Texas shows that expanding certification to for-profit teacher training programs

reduced schools’ reliance on uncertified teachers. … [T]he lower-cost training routes [also] brought new types of certified teachers into the profession.

Teachers from for-profit programs

were of lower quality than...