Louisiana educators will soon have to undergo a criminal background check before they can receive their teaching license in a move intended to make it more difficult for would-be teachers with prior ...

DENVER (CBS4)- The Colorado Department of Education has contacted roughly 1,900 veteran teachers and asked them to resubmit their fingerprints. A 2015 federal audit found thousands of teacher files ...

The USA TODAY NETWORK determined America's system for checking teachers' backgrounds is a loosely-connected patchwork of state laws and procedures, inconsistent practices by school districts and state ...

Adults wait their turn to be fingerprinted by local authorities in the Edward A. Greer Educational Center. Each has his fingers stained before the prints are sent to the FBI. In two to four weeks, ...

Senator Win Gatchalian raised concern over the high mismatch between the subjects taught and the college majors of high school science teachers with 98% of Physical Sciences teachers and 80% of ...