The federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation sets aggressive targets for student achievement and teacher accountability. TCTA is Texas teachers' advocate to ensure that the NCLB legislation has a positive impact on students and you.
New flexibility from NCLB/ESEA laws
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (NCLB) reauthorization
- TCTA analyzes Obama administration's education reform plan
- ESEA reauthorization getting attention
- Race to the Top: Another major federal reform effort emerges
- Arne Duncan calls for major NCLB overhaul
NCLB Act, general
- Analysis of the NCLB Act (from the 2010-11 TCTA Survival Guide)
Accountability standards
- Analysis of the NCLB Act: Accountability
- SES complaints: recruitment, marketing, enrollment, and implementation practices
- 2009-10 approved Supplemental Educational Services (SES) provider list
- SES could occur during school day
- USDE guidance on testing LEP students
- USDE NCLB Policy Guidance
- Special education testing under NCLB
“Highly qualified” teacher requirements
- TEA highly qualified teacher guidance
- Analysis of the NCLB Act: Educator quality
- Are you "highly qualified" according to NCLB?
- USDE: certain elementary teachers must take additional certification test
- Special education teachers have additional way to meet NCLB highly qualified requirements
- TEA guidance for the implementation of NCLB highly qualified teacher requirements for special education teachers
- TEA's NCLB highly qualified information for teachers
Paraprofessionals
- Deadline approaching for certain paraprofessionals to meet NCLB qualifications
- Analysis of the NCLB Act: Paraprofessionals
- Paraprofessional assessment provider TCTA provides this link at the request of our members as a member service, and therefore, does not monitor this site. Additionally, contact your school district to verify whether the test is accepted and the qualifying score: each school district sets its own qualifying score.
- USDE and TEA guidance on paraprofessionals under the NCLB Act:
- TEA’s NCLB highly qualified information for paraprofessionals
