The state Board of Education meeting started with board member Rod Lewis running down the list of the changes to the proposed tiered licensing rule, as detailed here. Board member Richard Westerberg said they are “fairly substantial changes.” Lewis said the biggest one is dropping from three tiers to two, and removing accountability measures from the professional-level certificate renewal requirements, instead leaving those renewal requirements for experienced teachers the same as they are now. Those measures still would apply to teachers within the first tier, which is generally those in their first three years of teaching.