Washoe Country School District NCLB Highly Qualified Criteria
The Washoe County School District is proud of the quality of our
teaching workforce. We believe we provide our students with
excellent instruction from skilled, knowledgeable, and caring
teachers. The federal "No Child Left Behind" legislation has
coined a new phrase, "Highly Qualified Teacher" (HQT). This law
requires that every teacher assigned to a core academic area
demonstrate the HQT status appropriate to their assignment(s).
"Core academic areas" refers to reading, language arts,
mathematics, science, social studies (includes civics, history,
government, geography and economics), foreign language, arts
(includes visual arts, theater and music). Teachers, including
elementary education, special education, alternative education,
gifted education and ESL, who teach one or more classes in any
of these subjects in grades K-12 must meet the HQT requirement.
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