New California Teaching Credentials Decline for 10th Year in a Row

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Students participate in a transitional kindergarten class at Figarden Elementary in Fresno. Photo by Liv Ames/For EdSource

By Katherine Ellison and Louis Freedberg, EdSource

Fueling concerns about a teacher shortage that many educators have been worrying about for years, the number of credentials issued to new teachers trained in California has decreased for the 10th consecutive year, according to the latest figures from the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing.

In the 2013-14 school year, the commission issued 11,497 new credentials to teachers trained in California, down from 16,401 in 2009-10. Boosting these numbers were 3,313 teachers who had been trained as teachers in other states or countries and applied for and received credentials in California.

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