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.
Medicare's Becoming A Means-Tested Welfare Program, And That Could Be A Good Thing. President Lyndon Johnson did not want his signature legislative achievement, the 1965 passage of the Medicare program, to be a means-tested (i.e., income-dependent) welfare program. And Johnsonâs not the only one. In July 2011, AARP Senior Vice President Joyce Rogers released this statement after President Obama indicated he might be willing to consider expanding means testing in Medicare: âMedicare is not a welfare program.