[brooklyn_ashey]

Actually, I'd be interested in what is required of a school and its founders who want this license. There may be more to it than meets the immediate assumption. For example, are there any requirements for its CEO in terms of other pending lawsuits/levies/fines regarding other business they might be into? If so, I might want to look into its leadership... So, it isn't the literal license that should be concerning. It is what that license requires of those who seek it. Of course there are all sorts of crap institutions that provide little value for their graduates who ARE licensed. A license doesn't tell you if a school is effective. Shoot-- if that were the case, then why not hire CS grads who have degrees without putting them through a ridiculous battery of tests before handing them a piddling little jobs in web dev? We should all be more rigorous in what we accept as good mentorship in a time when we so need it, when so many are unemployed or underemployed. As to teaching licenses-- please. The coding bootcamps are hiring grads to boost their outcomes. That's what is happening at all of these places. And most of these grads are not skilled enough at the subject matter to guide anyone else (some of them are, of course). Certainly many of them have virtually no teaching experience. That said, the whole teaching license thing is not really working. For example, teachers with PHDs in their subject can't work in a public school without a teaching license for NYS. They CAN, however, teach at the very tippy top private schools in Manhattan like Dalton, Horace Mann, St. Ann's, Ramaz, and the rest-- because those schools really must seek the very best teachers who are expert in their respective fields if they expect the wealthy to pay them $40-60,000 in tuition for their kids' high school experience. The wealthy 1% who have really buying power differ from the typical code school student in that they can stand to pay whatever it costs to hire the best teachers for the job, whereas the code school student is looking desperately for a way into this kind of broken labor market. They don't have the power because they are desperate and it is this desperation that is preyed upon. ANd that isn't ok.