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Provide Additional Flexibility for Rural Teachers Under NCLB March 2004 The US Department of Education has recently released new policies providing states with additional flexibility in ensuring that teachers in core academic subjects are “highly qualified” under the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act. While some of these provisions have already been incorporated into NYS’s written guidance to the field as a result of NYSUT’s advocacy for science teachers and multi-subject teachers, challenges facing rural teachers have now been recognized by the feds. Since these teachers in small, rural districts frequently are required to teach in more than one academic subject, the new policy will allow them additional time to become “highly qualified.” Teachers in eligible, rural districts who are “highly qualified” in at least one subject will have three years to become “highly qualified” in the other subjects they teach. NYSUT will continue to provide input in shaping NYS’s interpretation of this policy including the definition of an eligible rural school as well as requirements for professional development, supervision and mentoring of rural teachers in additional subjects. For more information on becoming “highly qualified” under NCLB, see the NYSUT Information Bulletin on High Objective Uniform State Standard of Evaluation (HOUSSE) at http://www.nysut.org/research/bulletins/2002nclb_housse.html. |
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