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OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY
May 16, 2006
Dr. June St. Clair Atkinson
Superintendent of Public Instruction
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
Education Building
301 North Wilmington Street
Raleigh, NC 27601-2825
Dear Superintendent Atkinson:
I am writing to acknowledge that the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NC DPI) has submitted revised data on the numbers and percentages of classes taught by highly qualified teachers (HQT), and that this revised data which covers the 2005-06 school year appropriately includes special education teachers of core academic subjects. We further understand that this data is preliminary and may be updated as additional teachers complete the HOUSSE process before June 30, 2006.
To summarize, the preliminary data shows that 87 percent of the States elementary school classes and 84 percent of the secondary school classes were taught by highly qualified teachers in the 2005-06 school year. Of the approximately 11,000 (out of 75,500) classes taught by non-highly qualified teachers, the State has provided additional information that approximately 40 percent of those teachers are regular education teachers who have not yet completed the HOUSSE process or passed a content-area test, 34 percent are special education teachers who also have not yet demonstrated subject-area mastery, and the remaining 26 percent do not hold current full State certification.
Thank you for presenting this additional information in such a timely manner. The U.S. Department of Education now agrees that the NC DPI is, in general, implementing the HQT provisions of the statute and making an effort to meet the HQT goal. As a result, we will not require any grant conditions and do not anticipate imposing any sanctions on the NC DPI regarding this issue.
In any event, the revised data still show that your State is unlikely to meet the 100 percent HQT goal by the end of the current school year. The Department looks forward to reviewing the revised plan you will submit in July that details the specific steps you will take to reach the HQT goal in the 2006-07 school year.
Sincerely,
/s/
Henry L. Johnson
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Our mission is to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence throughout the Nation
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