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KNEA is Your Resource: What you should know first about being highly qualified!

The Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) determined how to quantify "highly qualified" under the ESEA.

KSDE used data from the sample of 200 schools taken this spring and generalize about "highly qualified" for the fall 2003 required reports.

Teachers will be asked to complete the Highly Qualified survey when they come back for the 2003-2004 school year.

Look in the August edition of the Issues for information about this survey and how you will need to document yourself as being "highly qualified." Another good resource is A Practical Guide to the Kansas Performance-Based Licensure System.

Know that:

• As long as you're licensed/endorsed for what you're teaching, you're fine. You will not lose your job over this.
• For all teachers, and especially those at middle level, there are many ways to meet the requirement; do not accept advice that you need to get an endorsement in an area immediately - or that you must go take college courses this summer.
• For all but Title I, this isn't effective until May, 2006.
  Regarding sanctions: if a school does NOT have all the teachers "highly qualified" by the 2005-2006 year, it COULD, if it is a Title 1 school, have some funding put in jeopardy. If it is not a Title 1 school, no one is quite sure what the federal government might do.

If you have questions on this, contact KNEA Instructional Advocacy Director Peg Dunlap.

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