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Do special education teachers have to meet the NCLB requirements? What is a highly qualified special education teacher?

April 26, 2017highly meet NCLB qualified requirements special education Teacher teachers

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Do special education teachers have to meet the NCLB requirements? What is a highly qualified special education teacher?

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The recent reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA), December 2004, changes some of the options for special education teachers. It does require that special education teachers who teach core academic subjects meet the NCLB requirements. All special education teachers must have a special education credential. Approved on November 15, 2005, Title 5 regulations say that a “new” special education teacher who teaches multiple subjects at the middle or high school level and is already “highly qualified” in language arts, mathematics, or science can use the HOUSSE option for the other subjects assigned and has from two years of date of hire to complete that verification process. We do not yet have proposed regulations on other provisions for “highly qualified” special education teachers.