Feds release state teacher equity plans
The U.S. Department of Education released today the reviews of state teacher equity plans, which were due July 7. The plans were supposed to show either states have 100 percent highly qualified teachers in the classroom or have plans to do so.
Nine states submitted plans that were approved by a U.S. Department of Education peer review panel. North Carolina was not one of them.
Instead, North Carolina was one of 39 states with partially-accepted teacher equity plans. The panel criticized North Carolina for being too vague on how it plans to make sure all students have highly-qualified teachers, regardless of socioeconomic or racial status. The state has until Sept. 29 to either submit a revised plan or provide data showing that all core academic subject classes are being taught by highly qualified teachers and that the numbers are equally distributed among poor, minority and other children.
Check out the update by the USDE as well as North Carolina's report. You can find out what steps the Department of Public Instruction would take on page 16 of its report.