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NCLB NYS
Field Memo
#05-2003 

ADDENDUM August 2004

Cover Letter

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part B:  Teachers Who May Want to Use the HOUSSE

Part C:  New York State’s Definition of the HOUSSE

Part D:  Accountability and Records

Appendix D

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Part D
Accountability and Records

D5. May employers limit the options that teachers of core academic subjects use to demonstrate their subject matter competency?

SED’s policy is that all employers, regardless of whether they receive Title I, Part A funds, should allow teachers who are not “new to the profession” to use the entire NCLB definition of “highly qualified,” including the high objective uniform State standard of evaluation (HOUSSE). To advance the State’s interest in meeting the federal deadlines for teacher quality,” SED is in the process of proposing amendments to Part 120 of the Regulations of the Commissioner that would create a State requirement for all employers of public school teachers to use the entire NCLB definition of “highly qualified,” including the HOUSSE.
D6. Can a public school employer set HOUSSE standards that exceed the New York State rubric?

No. Employers cannot change the substance of the HOUSSE rubrics. Section 9101(23)(C)(ii)(IV) of the NCLB clearly requires that the HOUSSE be “uniformly applied to all teachers in the same academic subject and the same grade level throughout the State.” This means that employers must use the options in New York’s HOUSSE rubrics as those options are stated in the rubrics. Employers may change the appearance of the HOUSSE rubric forms so long as they do not change the substance of the rubrics themselves.

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