North Dakota Poised to Remove Mandate for State Schools Chief to hold Teaching License

Education Week reports:
Forget being a “highly qualified” teacher—in North Dakota, the state superintendent soon may not need to be a teacher at all.

After party-line votes by Republicans in both houses of the state legislature, North Dakota is poised to eliminate its long-standing requirement that the state’s elected schools chief hold a teaching license. Gov. John Hoeven, a Republican, is expected to approve the bill, which has failed several times in the past.