Many Utah charter-school teachers aren’t ‘qualified’ — or sticking around

Last year, Riverdale's Good Foundations Academy lost six of its 25 teachers, according to Executive Director Brent Petersen.The exodus was due in part to Hill Air Force Base families leaving the area, he said, and made for some "outlandish" retention data.But Good Foundations also has a qualification problem, which Petersen attributes to the school's practice of recruiting teachers from outside Utah.In 2013 and 2014, less than 85 percent of the charter's teachers were appropriately licensed or e