Do your students receive core content credit from you in any of the following: English Language Arts, Reading, Math, Science, Foreign Language, Civics and Government, Economics, Arts, History, or Geography?

Do any other exceptions apply to you?

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You had to meet "Highly Qualified" requirements in order to be hired.

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Do you work in a program supported by Title I funds?

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You meet the "highly qualified" requirements.

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Have you received advance certification (National Board or Professional Teaching Standards) in each subject you teach?

Have you met your state's HOUSSE requirement in each subject you teach?

Do you have an academic major or equivalent coursework in each subject you teach?

Do you have a graduate degree in each subject you teach?

Were you newly hired after the first day of the 2002-03 school year?

Have  you passed a state content test in each subject you teach?

You meet the "highly qualified" requirements.

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You have until the end of the 2005-06 school year to pass your state test or meet your state HOUSSE requirement.

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Have you met your state's HOUSSE for your content and grade level?

Have you demonstrated competence in content and teaching skill by passing y our state test in reading, math, writing, and other core elementary curricular areas?

Do you teach at an elementary or secondary school?

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You must make progress and complete "highly qualified" requirements within 3 years of hire for other subject areas.

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You must meet "highly qualified" requirements by the end of the 2005-06 school year.

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The certification portion of the "highly qualified" provisions do not apply to you. You must meet the content requirements.

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You must make progress toward completing your program. You have three years from the time that you become the teacher of record to meet "highly qualified" requirements.

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Do you receive intensive mentoring and supervision?

You do not meet the "highly qualified" requirements of NCLB and have until the end of the 2005-06 school year to meet them.

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Do you teach in a charter school that, under state law, exempts you from certification or licensure requirements?

Are you enrolled in an "alternative route" program?

Do you teach in a charter school that, under state law, exempts you from certification or licensure requirements?

Do you have full certification (no waivers, temporary, or provisional qualifications)?

You have until the end of the 2006-07 school year to become "highly qualified" in other subject areas.

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You must be "highly qualified" in each science you teach.

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You must be "highly qualified" for the general science license.

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Are you newly hired?

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Do you receive mentoring or intensive supervision?

Do you receive high quality professional development?

Do you have a bachelors degree?

Are you "highly qualified" in at least one of the areas you teach?

You must meet all "highly qualified" requirements by the end of the 2005-06 school year.

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Do you hold this license?

Does your state have a general science license?

You must be "highly qualified" in one of these areas by the end of the 2005-06 school year and...

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Was the school you teach in eligible for the Small Rural School Achievement Program as of March 3, 2004?

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Are all the core academic subjects that you teach classified as science courses?

Do you teach multiple core academic subjects?

You must complete HOUSSE or "highly qualified" requirements for all subjects within 2 years of hire. 

However, if you teach only science or work in a rural school, click here. 

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Are you "highly qualified" in math, language arts, or science?

You do not have to meet the "highly qualified" requirements of NCLB.

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You must complete the state's multi-subject HOUSSE or meet the "highly qualified" standards for regular teachers by the end of the 2005-06 school year.

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You must meet the "highly qualified" standards for regular education teachers by the end of the 2005-06 school year.

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Have you successfully completed the HOUSSE in all core subjects you teach?

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Have you completed the state HOUSSE in all core subjects you teach?

Have you passed a state test of subject knowledge and teaching in reading, math, writing, and other core elementary subject areas?

Do you teach two or more core subjects to students with disabilities?

You have until the end of the 2005-06 school year to obtain this license or pass this exam.

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This waiver must be cleared by the end of the 2005-06 school year.

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Are you a special education teacher?

Are you classified as either a long term or short term substitute teacher?

You meet the "highly qualified" requirements.

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Have you demonstrated subject matter knowledge appropriate to your level of instruction, as determined by the state?

Do you teach at the elementary or secondary level?

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Do you teach exclusively to students assessed against alternative achievement standards?

You are considered "highly qualified" as long as your job assignment does not change.

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Is your sole responsibility to provide consultative services to a core content teacher who is considered "highly qualified?"

Do you hold a state special education license, or have you passed a state special education licensing exam?

Has your license been waived on an emergency, temporary, or provisional basis?

Are you a Special Education teacher?

You must meet "highly qualified" requirements by the end of the 2005-06 school year.

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There are two types of Title I programs. Targeted Assistance Title I schools are those schools where Title I funds may only be used to serve individually identified students who are "educationally disadvantaged." In this case (and all schools that have less than 40% of their students in poverty are automatically in this category) only those teacherse paid in whole or in part with Title I funds are considered a teacher teaching in a program supported with Title I funds.

The other type of Title I program is called Schoolwide Title I. This is limited to those schools with at least 40% of its students in poverty -- in which case the school MAY choose to use its Title I funds to serve all students. If that happens then ALL teachers are considered working in a program supported by Title I funds. So, to determine if the HQ requirements apply NOW to teachers in a Title I program you have to know if your school is schoolwide (and then the answer is YES), or targeted assistance (and the answer is only if you are directly paid with Title I funds). About half of Title I schools are schoolwide.

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"New" means new to the profession. It specifically does not mean new to a school or district because of a transfer. The distinction is that only teachers not new can use the HOUSSE (with the new exception for a HOUSSE for certain new special ed multi subject teachers). Here's an exact quote from U.S. DOE Teacher Quality Guidance:

"A current teacher is a teacher who has already been hired by, and is teaching in, the school district. For practical purposes, the term 'current' teacher does not have a different meaning than the term 'veteran teacher' or 'teacher who is not new to the profession.' We use the term current teacher rather than veteran teacher in this context only because we do not want to imply that such a teacher must have extensive teaching experience."

States have the option of defining "new teacher" differently.

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This policy applies to LEAs (Local Education Agencies, or school districts) that meet the following two requirements:

1. The total number of students in average daily attendance at all schools served by the LEA is fewer than 600, OR all schools in the district are located in counties with a population densityi of fewer than 10 persons per square mile; AND

2. All schools served by the LEA have a school locale code of 7 or 8, as determined by the Secretary, OR the LEA is located in an area of the State defined as rural by the SEA (State Education Agency) or another governmental agency of the State. U.S. Department of Education has links for each state that show which districts fit this definition.

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This is NEA's interpretation, subject to final U.S. Department of Education regulations.

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"New" means new to the profession. It specifically does not mean new to a school or district because of a transfer. The distinction is that only teachers not new can use the HOUSSE (with the new exception for a HOUSSE for certain new special ed multi subject teachers). Here's an exact quote from U.S. DOE Teacher Quality Guidance:

"A current teacher is a teacher who has already been hired by, and is teaching in, the school district. For practical purposes, the term 'current' teacher does not have a different meaning than the term 'veteran teacher' or 'teacher who is not new to the profession.' We use the term current teacher rather than veteran teacher in this context only because we do not want to imply that such a teacher must have extensive teaching experience."

States have the option of defining "new teacher" differently.

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