Federal court rules that teachers-in-training don’t count as ‘highly qualified’
After three years of court dates, appeals and petitions,Public Advocates, a nonprofit group based in San Francisco, scored a major victory yesterday when the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that teachers-in-training cannot legally be considered “highly qualified.”
Under 2001’s No Child Left Behind Act, if a student does not have a “highly qualified teacher” in his or her
