Sunday, July 22, 2012

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Winners and Losers (So Far) in House Appropriations

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Winners and Losers (So Far) in House Appropriations:


Winners and Losers (So Far) in House Appropriations

From the House Appropriations Committee work of last week, comes these results (via Ed Week):

Winners:
Extension of allowing teachers in alternative certification programs to count as "highly qualified" through the 2014-2015 school year.  This would include those "higly qualified" TFA 5-week trained teachers.

Losers:  organizations, many of whom support disabled/Special Ed students, like the council for Exceptional Children, National Center for Learning Disabilities and the NAACP who do not want the provision extended.  Here's what they said:

Absent expiration of the problematic provision ... low-income students, students with disabilities and English-