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Johanna Duncan-Poitier, Senior Deputy Commissioner of Education - P-16 for the Office of Elementary, Middle, Secondary, and Continuing Education and Office of Higher Education
Joseph Frey, Associate Commissioner, Office of Higher Education

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No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB)

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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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Table of Contents

Introduction
Part A
NCLB Requirements for the HOUSSE
NO CHANGES
 
Part B
Teachers Who May Want to Use the HOUSSE
NEW ITEMS
B4. Must teachers who have already passed a HOUSSE be re-evaluated using the updated rubrics?

B5. How does the HOUSSE apply to teachers of multiple core academic subjects?
Part C
New York State’s Definition of the HOUSSE
NEW ITEMS
C5. What changes are made to the HOUSSE rubrics in Appendix D?
Part D
Accountability and Records
NEW ITEMS
D5. May employers limit the options that teachers of core academic subjects use to demonstrate their subject matter competency?
D6. Can a public school employer set HOUSSE standards that exceed the New York State rubric?
Appendices A through C
NO CHANGES

 
Appendix D
Evaluation Tool for Using Information Acceptable to the Commissioner of Education for the HOUSSE
Part 1.  REVISED ITEMS
For teachers of common branch classes in grades
pre-K through 6 and special education classes with grades
pre-K through 6 instructional content

Part 2.  NEW and REVISED ITEMS
For teachers of core academic subjects in grades 7 through 12;
specially designed instruction deemed equivalent to the general curriculum in grades 7 through 12;
and the arts, foreign languages and reading at all grade levels

Part 3.  NO CHANGES

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