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Posted:  November 15, 2007

Progress Toward Highly Qualified Status

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)

IISD had one teacher for the 2006-2007 school year who did not meet the criteria of HQ in the content areas they were teaching. This teacher was a certified teacher but lacked the testing necessary to be considered under the NCLB definition of highly qualified in each content area for self contained special education.  This teacher taught at Irving H.S.

The reporting of Highly Qualified teachers has 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 2007-2008 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.