No States Meet Teacher Quality Goal

[deminks]

WASHINGTON - 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 Education Department 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.

Department officials would not say how much aid could be withheld from states to force compliance. But Johnson said, "In some cases, we're talking about large amounts of money."


Great, lets withhold money they weren't gonna get anyway, and leave even more children behind.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060513/ap_on_re_us/teacher_quality_6

[no_hypocrisy]

1. This NCLB was nothing more than a pretext to defund public schools.

Congress should be ashamed of itself. Once again.

[dobegrrrl]

2. Intent is to privatize

I have always believed that the intent of NCLB is to destroy public school in order to privatize them... more for the corps. The goal is impossible - 100% pass rate - give me a break!
I teach in VA and the special ed teachers were informed in the past 6 weeks or so that in order to be "highly qualified" they had to have at least 24 hours in each of the core areas (English, social studies, math, and science) They are being given until July to comply!!

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[GreenPartyVoter]

3. That is EXACTLY what NCLB is all about