AB221 will do more harm than good in helping disadvantaged students

Teacher unions, school districts and education reformers are in rare agreement that California faces a severe shortage of teachers, especially in schools that serve low-income students and among those who teach science and mathematics.
For instance, an education think tank called the Leadership Policy Institute found 75 percent of California districts “were experiencing teacher shortages, and the vast majority said those shortages were getting worse.”
Yet a new bill, which recently p