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Interstate Certification and Special Education

Education is a state function, and teaching is a licensed or certified profession in every state. Similarly, many types of professional support school personnel-such as school psychologists, counselors, reading specialists, administrators, and supervisors-must have licenses or certification before they can be appointed to positions in local educational agencies. Since each state establishes its own requirements for licensing or certification, personnel who have qualified in one state are not automatically qualified for employment in the schools of other jurisdictions. Unnecessary impediments to the orderly and easy qualification of properly trained and experienced teachers and other school professionals reduce the supply of persons available to staff the states’ elementary and secondary schools. These impediments produce obvious injustices, ranging from simple inconvenience to outright denial of employment. While these injustices affect both men and women educators, they are particularly felt by women. This is due to two factors. First, women make up a majority of the nation’s teaching force; second, they tend to move more for family reasons (e.g., job changes of spouse) than for economic ones. Thus, frequently, impediments to certification are not a