Posted on 11/11/2014 5:37:40 AM PST by reaganaut1
The Obama administration is directing states to show how they will ensure that all students have equal access to high-quality teachers, with a sharp focus on schools with a high proportion of the poor and racial minorities.
In a letter to state superintendents released Monday, Deborah S. Delisle, an assistant secretary at the Department of Education, said states must develop plans by next June that make sure that public schools comply with existing federal law requiring that “poor and minority children are not taught at higher rates than other children by inexperienced, unqualified or out-of-field teachers.”
States last submitted plans to address such inequities in 2006, but data shows that large disparities persist.
“It is important to remind our states that one step in front of the other is the way to begin to deliver for all our students,” said Catherine Lhamon, assistant secretary for civil rights, in a conference call with reporters. “We are all dismayed by the lack of compliance and lack of satisfaction and delivery on this point.”
The Education Department will send each state data collected by the department’s Office for Civil Rights showing rates of teacher experience, certification, absenteeism and salary by school as well as student access to taxpayer-funded preschool and advanced courses in math and science.
The administration is also urging states to look at teacher evaluations to determine whether those who receive lower ratings are disproportionately assigned to schools with high proportions of racial minorities and students in poverty.
But the only requirement of states is that they ensure that teachers are equitably distributed based on experience and credentials.
Education advocates said such measures could limit improvements in the quality of instruction in struggling schools.
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They are going to demand that school districts offer higher pay scales for so-called "high-needs" schools in order to retain teachers. The congressional GOP should stop such a federal mandate.
Schools are local.
Looks like yet another reason to homeschool.
Public schools are a 19th century paradigm that outlived its usefulness in the late 20th century.
JMHO. And observation.
More money and more federal regulations will not help.
We need to stop the tyranny of soft expectations.
We need the negroes to step it up and act like they're part of western civilization.
If I were a teacher in public schools today, I would be looking for a landing zone outside the public school business.
This is being done to sew up the teachers union vote.
Sarcasm off, as if that’s needed.
I dont see how this would work. Either you tell a teacher which school district to work in and run the risk they quit. Alternately you bus kids around the district to facilitate access. However, that doesn’t guarantee they’ll get the ‘good’ teachers at that school. Seems to me if they push hard on this it’ll wind up doing nothing beside disrupting an already dysfunctional system.
Another reason to get rid of the DOE.
......yet another reason why public schools should be de-governmentalized!
These liberals just sit up in DC and look for some problem or issue to try and justify their existence!
I hope I live to see the day that the. Department of Education is closed forever and NEA is broke and can’t pay it’s bills !
This coupled with a body guard needed to protect the teachers when disiplinary action needs to be taken.
“......ensure that all students have equal access to high-quality teachers, with a sharp focus on schools with a high proportion of the poor and racial minorities.”.....
Not to sound racists but those teachers should all have to be white. (OK. fire away)
Ain’t central planning grand? I love how all this command and control information comes out while he in out of the country.
Counting down 1 year to retirement :)
I'm a free agent able to sell my labor to the highest bidder. There is a lot of competition among teachers to get a job in the “good” suburban high paying districts so those districts get the most qualified teachers. Most teachers aren't interested in working in an inner city school, the pay would have to be much higher to overcome the metal detector factor.
Good luck getting a higher math or science teacher to go if assigned against their will to Michael Brown's high school. Not that he was taking those classes, he was taking the computer based classes we put kids that can't behave in a regular class or need the really dumbed down computer curriculum because they can't pass regular classes.
U.S. to Focus on Equity in Assigning of Teachers
In real speak’
We are the government and you will do everything as we say or else..........
Sounds like a good way to make a lot of public school teachers quit, especially the good ones. And, maybe, that’s the Plan.
comply with existing federal law requiring that “poor and minority children are not taught at higher rates than other children by inexperienced, unqualified or out-of-field teachers.”
Being taught by unqualified teachers is something CAUSED by the Federal Government.
Good and experienced teachers will quit before accepting an assignment in a combat zone.
What part of this don’t they get?
Stay the hell out of our schools. You have done enough damage!
Many mostly black schools resemble battle zones or areas or semi-organized chaos. What good teacher wants to go into situations where they’ll be subjected to indifference at best and possible violence from their students at worst?
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