1.   And it demands evidence that teacher candidates actually can teach.

2.   Meanwhile, teacher tests now are administered to new teacher candidates, and Governor Paul Cellucci filed legislation last month to do the same for veteran teachers.

3.   Pennsylvania also approved the program despite a glut of teacher education school candidates.

4.   Teacher candidates taking the test in October and later had always been required to pass at the higher standard.

5.   Texas also has curbed social promotion of students and strengthened teacher candidates.

6.   The Liberal Arts and Sciences Test is the most general of three exams that teacher candidates have to pass to get a state teaching license.

7.   When teacher candidates used to get almost all their practice in one semester of practice teaching, host teachers were often uninvolved in evaluating them.

8.   Yet superintendents say teacher candidates are still being hired if they earned education degrees in other states.

9.   For example, she said, some states allowed teacher candidates to take the licensing test more than once.

10.   Previously, these teacher candidates had no minimum grade-point average to meet.