RIP for HQT?
“No Child Left Behind’s highly qualified teachers provision deserves to die,” writes Mike Petrilli on Education Gadfly.
In a ruling last week, the Ninth Circuit said Teach For America teachers and others with alternative certification should not be considered “highly qualified” while they work toward state certification. A public-interest law firm had challenged the practice, complaining that low-income, minority students are more likely to be taught by uncertified “interns.”
The law’s wording is ambiguous, Petrilli writes, though Congress signaled its intent by supporting alternative