The USA TODAY NETWORK determined America's system for checking teachers' backgrounds is a loosely-connected patchwork of state laws and procedures, inconsistent practices by school districts and ...

Yolanda Flowers is the first to say she’s not like ... where she was a substitute teacher in Birmingham city schools for three years. She called her proposed education reform plan LIFE ...

Nearly every state education agency provides a system that parents and members of the public can use to verify and review the credentials of public school teachers in the state. However ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The number of background checks performed by the state for substitute teachers has skyrocketed in recent years after state lawmakers loosened requirements to enter the profession.