"We just had a teacher's fair last weekend for prospective students, and we have a teacher cadet program where we are trying to encourage high-school students to go into teacher education," Warner says.
At SUNO, Chancellor Press Robinson said requiring the Praxis for graduation was a controversial move.
Some had predicted that it would work to reduce the number of Black teachers, but that isn't happening, Robinson says.
"Initially, there was a slight decrease, but those numbers are beginning to go back up —in the long run, I think it will help us because the teachers who graduate from our program will be proud of having one of the best passage rates in the state," Robinson says.
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