State of Alaska > DEED > TLS > Teacher Certification > Home. Teacher Certification. Teacher Education and Certification Office works with school districts and universities to grant educator certifications, approve teacher preparation programs, and administer teacher recognition programs.
On August 22, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed welfare reform into law, fulfilling his campaign promise to âend welfare as we know it.â Twenty years later, it remains the center of a contentious debate over whether it helped, or hurt, the countryâs poorest single mothers and their children.
On May 22, 2007 the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced changes to the Service Contract Act (SCA) Health and Welfare (H&W) fringe benefits that will be effective, prospectively, for new contracts and new periods of performance.