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ing master’s degrees has increased from 9.3 to 12.6. In this same period of time, the national percentage of teachers holding degrees has risen from 77.8 to 91.4, while masters’ degree holders have declined slightly from 24.3 in 1955-56 _ to 24.0 in 1965-66. The approximately 12 percent of Virginia teachers who do not hold degrees include teachers who are high school graduates, who hold the no longer issued Normal Professional Certificate who have varying years of college credit but no degree, and who teach vocational industrial subjects with trade experience in lieu of college degrees. The State Board of Education has previously announced that it will discontinue issuance of special licenses which allow non-degree personnel to teach as of July 1, 1970. Vocational industrial teachers will in effect be excluded since a new certificate will be issued to cover them. The board has under advise ment the matter of establishing a deadline after which special licenses will not be renewed. In 1955-56 the locality with the highest percent of degree teachers was Martinsville with 97 percent; the lowest was Dickenson with nearly 26 percent. For 1965-66 these figures have risen to a high of more than 99 percent in
92.5%