Bennet Proposes National "Teachers Corps" In Letter To Obama

The Denver Post (2/11, Sherry) reports that Sen. Michael Bennet (D) "wrote in a letter to President Obama today that he will propose the 'Presidential Teachers Corps' to craft an army of 100,000 new mobile teachers in the next five years. ... The plan would start with teacher preparation schools - like the University of Northern Colorado - which would dole out a certain number of these special 'Presidential Teachers Corps' teaching licenses every year to students who want to go for them." According to the Post, these teachers "would be funneled to high-need, lower-income schools" and their national license would allow them to "move anywhere - from Florida to Colorado to Washington, D.C." and "not have to navigate burdensome certification differences in states."