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No Child
Left Behind Act
Right to
Know Professional Qualifications of Teachers and Teaching
Assistants
September 1, 2006
Dear Parent:
In January 2002, the federal No Child
Left Behind Act reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education
Act was signed into law by President Bush. The law requires that
school districts notify parents of your right to know the
professional qualifications of your child's teacher and teaching
assistant (if applicable).
You have a right to request
information regarding the qualifications of your child’s teacher
and paraprofessionals working with your child. Requested
information may include:
- Whether the teacher has met New York State qualification and
licensing criteria for the grade and subject area in which the
teacher is providing instruction.
- Whether the teacher is teaching under emergency or other
provisional status through which New York State qualification
or licensing criteria have been waived.
- The baccalaureate degree & major of the teacher and any
other graduate certification or degree held by the teacher,
and the field of discipline of the certification, or degree.
- Whether the child is provided services by paraprofessionals
and, if so, their qualifications.
Monticello Central School District makes every effort to hire
certified and highly competent teachers. On occasion, a
certified teacher may not be available and we may hire a teacher
who is non-certified but is in the process of becoming
certified. In such cases that your child is being taught for
more than four weeks by such a person, we are required to inform
you of that circumstance.
To request information, please send a
written request to my office at the address listed below:
Dr. Patrick Michel, Superintendent Designee
237 Forestburgh Road
Monticello, NY 12701
Sincerely,
Dr. Patrick Michel
Superintendent of Schools Designee
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