NCLB - Highly Qualified Teachers - Irving ISD

No Child Left Behind
Guidance for Implementation of Highly Qualified Teachers

Introduction

"Title II, Part A and Title I, Part A place particular emphasis on the need for LEAs to ensure that teachers of a core academic subject meet certain minimum requirements they need to become effective educators.... The requirements to be considered “highly qualified” are that teachers hold at least a bachelor’s degree, be fully certified in Texas, and demonstrate competency in the core academic subject area they are teaching. Special education teachers must be appropriately certified as a special education teacher, as required by the December 3, 2004, reauthorization of IDEA."

Highly Qualified Plans

"All States that receive Title I, Part A funds are required to develop a plan to have all teachers of core academic subjects highly qualified no later than the end of the 2005-2006 school year, excluding any teachers on modified timelines as allowed by USDE for eligible rural school districts or new special education teachers. Each LEA in the State must ensure that all teachers of core academic subjects hired after the first day of the 2002-2003 school year and teaching in a program supported with Title I, Part A funds are highly qualified when they are hired. The LEA must also have a plan describing how it will meet the annual measurable objectives established by TEA for ensuring that all teachers of core academic subjects in the LEA are highly qualified by the end of the 2005-2006 school year [Section 1119(a)(1) and (3)]."

Need to know more?

Read the Guidance for Implementation of NCLB Highly Qualified Teachers (July 7, 2005).