No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB)
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NCLB NYS
Field Memo
#02-2005
Cover Letter
Introduction
Instructions for NCLB Items
Definitions for NCLB Items
Appendix A
Appendix B
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Instructions for NCLB Items
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General Instructions
Teachers complete BEDS Personnel Data forms but their
responses should reflect their employer's review of whether they are "highly
qualified" for the "core academic subjects" they teach as required by the NCLB.
The NCLB requires principals of schools receiving Title I, Part A funds to
attest in writing annually as to the qualifications of their teachers of "core
academic subjects." BEDS forms should be completed in a way that is consistent
with those attestations. Under the NCLB, employers are ultimately responsible
for deciding whether teachers are "highly qualified" for their assignments to
teach "core academic subjects," receive "high quality professional
development," and submit accurate and complete BEDS forms.
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NCLB item on "high quality professional development"
on Side 1
This item asks teachers whether they received "high quality
professional development," as defined in section 9101(34) of the NCLB, in the
prior school year so that SED can measure progress as required in section 1119
of the NCLB. The response options are YES, NO or NOT APPLICABLE.
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Teachers who had at least one teaching assignment in the
prior school year should select either YES or NO.
Teachers who did not have any teaching assignments in the
prior school year should select NOT APPLICABLE. This includes, but is not
limited to, new teachers, teachers who had a leave of absence in the prior
year, and teachers who had only non-teaching assignments in the prior year.
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NCLB item on "highly qualified" for each teaching
assignment on Side 2
The NCLB requires teachers to be "highly qualified" for their teaching
assignments in "core academic subjects."
For each
reported teaching assignment, teachers must determine whether the assignment
is CORE, NOT CORE or MAY BE CORE by using the asterisks next to teaching
assignment codes on the list of BEDS Assignment Codes for Teachers.
| Asterisks appearing next to BEDS Assignment
Code for Teachers |
"Core" status of the teaching assignment
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None |
NOT CORE |
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* |
CORE |
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** |
MAY BE CORE |
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Local decision on "core" status of MAY BE CORE teaching
assignments. When a teaching assignment has two asterisks (denoting that
it MAY BE CORE), teachers must apply the following criteria to information
that is only available locally to decide whether the assignment is CORE or
NOT CORE.
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Career and Technical Education (CTE). A CTE
class is CORE only when used for credit in a "core academic subject" for a
high school diploma. When a certified CTE teacher does not use the
Collaborative Teaching Model to teach such a class, the class is CORE for
the CTE teacher. When a certified CTE teacher does use the
Collaborative Teaching Model to teach such a class, the class is NOT CORE
for the CTE teacher, but the class is CORE for the collaborating teacher.
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ESL and bilingual classes. ESL classes are CORE
only when (1) teachers use ESL methodology to teach "core academic
subjects" and have dual certification in ESL and the other subject they
are teaching or (2) students use an ESL class for English credit towards a
high school diploma. Bilingual classes are CORE whenever the teacher
covers "core academic subjects" at the instructional level of grades K
through 12 as the teacher of record.
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Special education and other classes. Special
education and other classes are CORE only when teachers provide direct
instruction in a "core academic subject" at the instructional level of
grades K through 12 as the teacher of record for that subject. Instruction
that supplements or reinforces instruction provided by other teachers who
are the teachers of record is not subject to the NCLB. For example,
instruction provided by a consultant teacher, a resource room teacher or
as part of Academic Intervention Services (AIS) is NOT CORE and is not
subject to the NCLB
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Response options. Teachers must select a
response option for the "NCLB Highly Qualified" item for each reported
teaching assignment. When a teaching assignment is CORE, teachers must
select YES or NO based on the definition of ‘highly qualified" in this
supplement. (See Definitions and Appendix A.) When a teaching assignment is
NOT CORE, teachers must select NOT CORE.
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Response options on the BEDS form
for each teaching assignment |
What the response options mean |
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YES |
The class is CORE and the teacher is
"highly qualified" to teach it. |
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NO |
The class is CORE and the teacher is not
"highly qualified" to teach it. |
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NOT
CORE |
The class is NOT CORE and the teacher is not
subject to the NCLB definition of "highly qualified." |
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All responses should be checked for accuracy and
completeness. All reported teaching assignments must have a response for the "NCLB
Highly Qualified" item (YES, NO or NOT CORE).
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When the "NCLB Highly Qualified" response box for a CORE
teaching assignment is incorrectly left blank or reported as NOT CORE, SED
will change the response option to NO, denoting that the teacher is not
"highly qualified" for a CORE class. In these cases, SED will give employers
an opportunity to correct the teacher’s status before data on "highly
qualified" teachers are publicly reported.
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When a YES is reported for a CORE teaching assignment and
SED’s certification records indicate that the teacher does not meet State
certification standards for that assignment (which take into account
incidental teaching and approved experiments in organizational change in
middle schools), SED will replace the YES response with a NO response and give
employers an opportunity to correct the teacher’s status before data on
"highly qualified" teachers are publicly reported.
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