Education law leaves children behind (AP/CNN) {all states will FAIL test}

[eppur_se_muova]

'The day of reckoning is here, and it's not going to pass'

Friday, May 12, 2006; Posted: 11:02 p.m. EDT (03:02 GMT)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Not a single state will have a highly qualified teacher in every core class this school year as promised by President Bush's education law. Nine states along with the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico face penalties.

The Department of Education on Friday ordered every state to explain how it will have 100 percent of its core teachers qualified -- belatedly -- in the 2006-07 school year.

In the meantime, some states face the loss of federal aid because they didn't make enough effort to comply on time, officials said.

They are Alaska, Delaware, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina and Washington, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
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Although the federal term is "highly qualified," the definition is widely regarded as more of a minimum qualification, because it requires teachers to know what they teach.
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/05/12/teacher.quality.ap/index.html

[fooj]

1. Duh.

We teachers know the education law is bs!

[MichiganVote]

2. Well what the hell do people expect anyway?

The term "highly qualified" is just so much BS. And schools, like senior citizens/Medicare, only have so many staff to devote to so many professional development issues. Time is a factor. Not to mention that fact that some positions require special circumstances for rural districts or for special education personnel.

America, wake up! Why aren't children performing well in our schools? Because too many of our kids are lazy, just plain flat out lazy with lazy parents who couldn't raise a turnip much less expend the energy.

[treestar]

3. Was just at an education law seminar and learned that it is all BS

There is something called a "highly dangerous school" or some BS like that - gawd, I hate the way Congress makes up those terms - different school districts around the country either don't report, or lie, or twist the numbers. Honest districts will report their dangerous schools. But nothing happens. Dishonest districts won't report.

The numbers to determine if you are a dangerous school are 20 dangerous incidents, but if you have 1000 or 3000 students, 20 is the number of incidents.

So, Pennsylvania has hundreds of dangerous schools and the County of Los Angeles has none. :rofl:

I imagine that highly qualified teachers is another federal government phrase that is meaningless.