He wants your vote for Ed Supe

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by David Safier
John Huppenthal sponsored a bill that would grant teaching certificates to someone with any one of these three qualifications:

  1. Graduate in the top 10 percent of his/her postsecondary graduating class.
  2. Score in the top 10 percent on a nationally recognized norm-reference admissions exam for post-baccalaureate programs.
  3. Taught for at least three years at the same school district or charter school on an emergency certificate.

No abbreviated training. No summer workshops. No nothing if you're pretty smart. Just get in there and teach.

According to an Arizona Education Association email, Huppenthal was forced to hold the bill in his Senate Education Committee, which pretty much means it's dead. The reason?

The decision to hold the bill, meaning it was not brought up for discussion or a vote in committee, came due to some members of the Senate Education Committee telling Senator Huppenthal in private that this was indeed a bad idea.  Senator Huppenthal was then forced into a situation where if he heard the bill and called for a vote, the bill would be defeated in his own committee (Huppenthal is the chairman of the Senate Education Committee)

It sounds like some of Hupp's Republican colleagues said to him, "Um, Mister Chairman, don't you think that's going a little bit too far, even for us?"

Let's see. Rips campaign signs from old ladies' hands (coming to a courtroom near you). Walks around getting signatures for his Ed Supe campaign, in possible probable violation of the resign-to-run law. Proposes a certification deregulation bill so out there, his own party has to talk him down.

John Huppenthal. He wants to be your next Superintendent of Public Education.

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