Adopting Response to the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Compliance Monitoring Report on Highly Qualified Teachers
Resolution Number 2006-26
September 27, 2006
The Board of Education adopts a response to No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Compliance Monitoring Report on Highly Qualified Teachers, as follows:
- (1) The proposed amendment to the criteria below for high school special education teachers new to the profession to demonstrate subject-matter competency in the subject(s) they teach for the designation of highly qualified:
- Complete an option provided by the No Child Left Behind Act, including an academic major in the content area, graduate degree in the teaching content area, or coursework equivalent to an undergraduate major, or
- Pass the appropriate Praxis II assessment(s) in the high school subject(s) they, teach; or
- Pass the appropriate middle school Praxis II assessment(s) in the subject(s) they teach if the special education teacher new to the profession is teaching classes at a high school campus in which the students are not earning standard credit in core academic areas towards a high school diploma.
- (2) The proposed amendment to the HOUSSE option of allowing licensed elementary, middle, and secondary teachers not new to the profession to become highly qualified by the completion of an earned advanced degree from an accredited college or university in the subjects(s) the teacher is teaching.
Mark E. Emblidge, President
Board of Education
Adopted in the Minutes of the Virginia Board of Education
September 27, 2006