Teachers voice concern over required literacy training, balky launch

When Fieler Elementary teacher Jacqueline Hoots learned she needed a new literacy endorsement to renew her teaching license, she decided to sign up for the 80-hour training right away. Other teachers joined her. Or they tried. “We couldn’t get on the website, it kept crashing,” said Hoots, who teaches third grade at the Merrillville school. In March, the Indiana Department of Education alerted teachers to the literacy training requirement, telling pre-K to grade 6 and special education teachers they must be trained in the science of reading to renew their...