The largest school district in Pennsylvania, with four times as many students as Cranberry Township has residents, has selected Butler County Community College to prepare noncertified educators working under one-year emergency permits to take content examinations required by the state for instructional I certification.

The School District of Philadelphia, with 124,184 kindergarteners through seniors, last fall requested proposals from organizations and institutions to provide tutoring services to help employees with bachelor’s degrees in fields other than education, and others who serve as emergency certified educators, to take tests that would result in state Department of Education certification.

BC3 has been awarded the one-year, $100,000 contract. The college will also tutor those among the School District of Philadelphia’s 8,500 teachers, some of whom are working with BC3 to obtain additional content-area certification.

The School District of Philadelphia has 18,000 employees, including emergency certified educators who have demonstrated content mastery and are able to renew one-year emergency permits.

Through its Praxis program, BC3 has offered tutoring services for teacher certification examinations for more than 15 years, said Annie Lindsay, who directs the program.