What is No Child Left Behind (NCLB)?
Federal No Child Left Behind Legislation (NCLB) requires districts to employ teachers who are considered “Highly Qualified.” To be considered highly qualified, content teachers for grades 4-8 and 8-12 must have a Bachelor’s degree in their content area or at least 24 semester hours with 12 semester hours of upper division university coursework in their content area and/or have passed the content TExES. EC-6 Generalist individuals must pass the EC-6 Generalist exam. Special education teachers may be considered highly qualified when they have passed a content TExES exam and the EC-12 Special Education exam.
