No one would argue that lawyers, doctors and accountants are immune from wrongdoing or poor judgment, and they have long been taking certification exams and promising to act ethically.
Edward L. Stanton III, the United States attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced on Friday that he had signed agreements with 16 other teachers who had either paid for someone else to take an exam or accepted payment from Mr. Mumford to take certification tests for others.
Federal prosecutors, who had been expecting Mr. Mumford, 59, to plead guilty on Friday, accuse him of soliciting teachers to take certification exams for other teachers and prospective teachers in Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee, falsifying government identifications and collecting tens of thousands of dollars in fees for his services over more than 15 years.
Examinations were taken, certifications attained, experienced logged, commitment demonstrated.
You can fly pretty much anything (more complex machines may require certification), take others, and get paid.
Donald M. Benjamin, a NERC vice president, said that system operators took a certification test every five years and that the council was also offering an alternative to the exam: continuing-education classes with which operators earn points toward recertification.
After getting considerably talented, he took a certification course at a hypnosis school in Manhattan that he's reticent to name.
For her part, Cadena said she supports higher certification standards and has taken steps to get certification for the state.
Local governments that took the certifications at face value ended up filing false returns with the I.R.S.
Everyone who can learn CPR and first aid should take a certification class and keep their certification current.
