No Child Left Behind

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No Child Left Behind

• Teacher Qualification

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NCLB Three Main Parts

• All teachers to meet new federal standards
• New hires to meet standards now
• Existing teachers to meet standards by 2005-2006
• Schools to measure whether students make progress
  toward state standards
• Schools that fail to meet state standards must
  offer choice and supplementary services

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NCLB Teacher Qualifications

• This presentation focuses only on new federal
  standards regarding teacher qualifications, one
  important part of NCLB
• This aspect of the new law is important because
  it directly affects you as a parent

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NCLB Information for Parents

• Parents can request credential information for
  childs teacher (April 03)
• Parents to receive notice in mail if child taught
  core subject by teacher not yet meeting new NCLB
  federal standards (April 03)

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NCLB Core Subjects

• English
• Reading/Language Arts
• Math
• Science
• Foreign Languages

• Civics Government
• Economics
• Arts
• History
• Geography

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NCLB What are new teacher standards?
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NCLB New Standards

• There are important differences between new
  federal standards and existing state standards
• Teachers Must Teach Majority of Classes on
  Certificate vs. Endorsed for all Classes Taught
• Reading
• Type 29 Bilingual Certificates
• Special Education
• Provisional Certificates

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NCLB State vs. Federal Teachers Must Teach
Majority of Classes on Certificate vs. Endorsed
for all Classes Taught

• State
• High school and subject specialists in middle
  schools (5-8 grades) need grade level certificate
  and endorsements only in subjects taught 3/5 of
  time (remaining 2/5 off certificate is OK)

• Federal
• High school and departmentalized middle school
  teachers (5-8 grades) need endorsement, a major
  or pass state subject area test for each subject
  taught

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NCLB State vs. FederalReading in departmental
settings

• State
• Teachers need reading endorsement if they teach
  reading over 50 of time

• Federal
• Reading is considered a subject that requires
  endorsements if the teacher teaches even one
  reading class

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NCLB State vs. FederalType 29 Bilingual
Certificates

• State
• Teachers with Type 29 (bilingual) certificate can
  teach all subjects for 8 year life of certificate

• Federal
• Type 29 (bilingual) certificates do not meet the
  NCLB standard unless the teacher has also passed
  the basic skills and subject area tests

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NCLB State vs. FederalSpecial Education

• State
• Special Education teachers need grade level
  certificate and special education endorsements
  for disabilities served

• Federal
• Special education endorsements are not used to
  make NCLB determinations
• It is unclear what content requirements special
  education teachers must meet
• Special education requirements will likely change
  for next year

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NCLB State vs. FederalProvisional Certificates

• State
• Teachers with provisional certificates are
  qualified to teach for full year on those
  certificates
• Most provisional certificates are recent
  graduates from out of state who have not yet
  completed state certification tests

• Federal
• Teachers with provisional certificates do not
  meet NCLB standard

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NLCB CPS Response

• Conduct teacher qualification audit
• Enable teachers to review and update teacher
  credential files online
• Enable principals to determine staff assignments
  that meet new NCLB standards
• Enable principals to notify parents if staff
  assignments do not meet new NCLB standards

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NLCB CPS Response

• Notify Parents
• CPS to notify parents in April regarding most
  teachers who do not yet meet NCLB standards
• CPS to allow parents to request teacher
  credential information beginning in mid-April for
  most teachers

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NLCB CPS Response

• Recruitment/Training
• CPS will continue efforts to recruit, train and
  retain the best teachers available
• CPS will focus training resources on existing
  teachers in order to help them meet the new NCLB
  standards

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NCLB Important Points

• New standards higher than many state standards
• New standards require reading teachers to have
  specific new qualifications, so many teachers
  delivering valuable services under new reading
  initiative will not meet new standard
• New standards measure qualifications and not
  quality of instruction
• New standards raised at time of shortage of
  qualified teachers

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NCLB School Data
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NCLB Local Analysis
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NCLB Summary

• No Child Left Behind creates new standard for
  teacher qualifications at CPS and across country
• Starting in April
• Parents will be notified by mail if child is
  taught core subject by teacher who does not yet
  meet new NCLB standard
• Parents can request credential information for
  childs teacher
• Teachers have until 2005-06 to meet new standard
• Not meeting new standard does not mean teacher is
  not qualified to teach or is not a good teacher
• CPS is committed to goal that every teacher will
  meet the new federal standards by 2005-2006