Teachers Who Fail

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More than half a million Florida students sat in classrooms last year in front of teachers who failed the state's basic skills tests for teachers. Many of those students got teachers who struggled to solve high school math problems or whose English skills were so poor they flunked reading tests designed to measure the very same skills students must master before they can graduate.

A Herald-Tribune investigation has found that fully a third of teachers, teachers' aides and substitutes failed their certification tests at least once. The Herald-Tribune found teachers who had failed in nearly every school in each of the state's 67 counties.

Nine percent of teachers failed portions of the tests at least four times, according to the Herald-Tribune study.

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