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2006 -07
Highly Qualified Teacher Data
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, commonly known as NCLB, is a United
States federal law that reauthorized a number of federal programs that aim
to improve the performance of U.S.’s primary and secondary schools by
increasing the Standard and Accountabilities for states, school districts
and schools, as well as providing parents more flexibility in choosing
which schools their children would attend.
The Act requires that by the
end of the 2005 -2006 school year all teachers will be “highly qualified”
as defined in law. A highly qualified teacher is one who has fulfilled
the state’s certification and licensure requirements. Teachers must meet
the following requirements:
 | Possess at least a bachelor’s degree |
| At the Elementary
level they must pass a state test demonstrating their subject knowledge
and teaching skills in reading/language arts, writing, mathematics and
other areas of basic elementary school curriculum |
| At the middle and high
school levels they must pass a state test in each academic subject area
they teach, plus have an undergraduate major, a graduate degree,
coursework equivalent to an undergraduate major or an advanced
certification or credentialing. |
The No Child Left Behind Act requires that school districts publicly
report the annual progress of the Local Education Agency (School District)
and each school campus served by the District in meeting the State’s
measurable highly qualified teacher objectives.
To comply with federal law, the Edcouch-Elsa Independent School District
hereby states that at the end of the 2006 -2007 school year, 99.4% of all
teachers teaching core academic subject areas were highly qualified. The
district identified 309 teachers in core academic subjects, of which 307
teachers were identified as highly qualified. The following school
campuses were identified as having 100% of its teachers teaching in core
academic subjects as highly qualified.
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Jorge R. Gutierrez Early
Childhood |
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John F. Kennedy
Elementary |
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Santiago Garcia
Elementary |
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Elementary |
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Ruben C. Rodriguez
Elementary |
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6th Grade
Middle School |
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Edcouch-Elsa High School |
The following school campus did not comply with federal law in having 100%
of its teachers highly qualified in all core academic subjects.
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Carlos Truan Jr. High
School |
Carlos Truan Jr. High School had 38 out of 40 teachers, classified as
highly qualified teachers teaching in a core academic subject.
For
Additional Information regarding the No Child Left Behind Highly Qualified
Teacher requirement, contact Mr. Pete Riojas, Federal Programs Director at
262-6000.
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