(Alternative Route to Licensure) where a teacher is hired without the necessary qualifications but puts in the extra work during the school year to earn them.

I’m not in the schools right now so I can’t tell you for sure what’s happening. But I can tell you that in my district they are so desperate for substitutes that they offer me $168 a day to do it. If I had nothing more than a high school diploma I would still get $116 a day.