Difficulties lie ahead for Recruitment In a Report presented annually to the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CCTC), according to Linda Darling Hammond, Stanford Professor and Chair of the CCTC, “declines in enrollment have forced programs to reduce faculty and staff, and some have closed their doors completely – with potentially long-term consequences for the state. “Our capacity to produce teachers has been affected by the decline,” she said. Ms. Darling-Hammond goes on to say in the EdSource article about the CCTC Report that there is an “acute shortage” of math and science teachers and that the shortage of special education teachers is almost a “five alarm fire.