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Fourteen percent of California teachers are not fully credentialed. However, this percentage varies greatly from school to school. Schools with higher proportions of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch are more likely to have higher proportions of underprepared teachers. In the 2001–02 school year, 19 percent of faculty were underprepared in schools where between 76 percent and 100 percent of the students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. In contrast, schools with the lowest percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch had an average of 8 percent underprepared teachers. Over the last five years of available data, the proportion of underprepared teachers in the two highest poverty categories has risen, then decreased slightly. In the two lowest poverty categories, the proportion has gone up slightly.
While it is encouraging to see a decrease in percentage of underprepared teachers in the highest-poverty schools, the disparities across schools remain severe. Almost one in five teachers in high-poverty schools are underprepared, compared to only one in 12 in low-poverty schools. Additional Resources
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