Judges say interns aren't 'highly qualified' teachers

09-28-2010

By Laurel Rosenhall/Sacramento Bee

Teaching interns can no longer be counted as "highly qualified" teachers under the No Child Left Behind law, a federal court ruled today. The ruling by a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals comes in response to a 2007 lawsuit filed by Public Advocates, a San Francisco-based public interest law firm. The suit alleges that a loophole in No Child Left Behind allowed the government to misrepresent how prepared teachers are for their jobs, perpetuating a pattern of clustering inexperienced teachers in the neediest schools. The suit said that about 59,000 teachers across the country -- including 10,000 in California -- are considered "highly qualified" by the government even though they don't yet have a teaching credential. The majority work in schools where at least 90 percent of students are nonwhite, the lawsuit said. (more…)

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