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Posted:  December 12, 2008

Irving ISD Status of Highly Qualified Teachers

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) requires each local education agency (LEA) to publicly report progress of the LEA toward meeting the highly qualified (HQ) teacher requirements.

To be HQ, a teacher must have:

• A Bachelor’s degree

• Full State Certification

• Competency demonstrated in the core academic subject taught

• Meet the Requirements of HOUSE (high, objective, uniform standard of evaluations for experienced teachers-as documented by June 1, 2007)

The reporting of Highly Qualified teachers  changed beginning with the 2007-2008 school year and is now completed in October at the start of the year rather than at the end of the school year in June.  Irving ISD does not hire any teacher into the district that is not Highly Qualified from day one.  The reporting to TEA at this time for 2008-2009 shows that 100% of our teachers in the core academic subject areas are Highly Qualified.  If this changes throughout the year, additional reports will be made to TEA and this information will be updated.