City of Baltimore - File #: 07-0245R

• File #: 07-0245R
• Version: 0
• Name: Informational Hearing - No Child Left Behind Act - Highly Qualified Teachers - Baltimore City Public School System Compliance
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 1/22/2007
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 1/22/2007
• Title: Informational Hearing - No Child Left Behind Act - Highly Qualified Teachers - Baltimore City Public School System Compliance FOR the purpose of requesting the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Academic Officer of the Baltimore City Public School System to brief the City Council on the status of the Baltimore City Public School System's compliance with the federal No Child Left Behind Act requirement that, by June 2007, all teachers of core academic subjects in the classroom be highly qualified and on the actions required in June should we fail to comply.
• Sponsors: Mary Pat Clarke, Paula Johnson Branch, James B. Kraft, Robert Curran, President Young, Keiffer Mitchell, Agnes Welch, Kenneth Harris, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Rochelle Spector, Helen L. Holton
• Indexes: Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
3/12/2007	0	Education, Housing, Health, and Human Services	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
1/22/2007	0	City Council	Introduced
1/22/2007	0	City Council	Adopted

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Clarke

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
Title
Informational Hearing - No Child Left Behind Act - Highly
Qualified Teachers - Baltimore City Public School System Compliance

FOR the purpose of requesting the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Academic Officer of the Baltimore City Public School System to brief the City Council on the status of the Baltimore City Public School System's compliance with the federal No Child Left Behind Act requirement that, by June 2007, all teachers of core academic subjects in the classroom be highly qualified and on the actions required in June should we fail to comply.
Body
Recitals

Throughout January 2007, the President of the United States will meet with bicameral and bipartisan members of Congress on the 5th anniversary of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) to urge reauthorization of the measure that was signed into law, in 2002.

The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education holds that one of the most important factors in raising student achievement is a highly qualified teacher and that research shows that teacher subject-matter knowledge is greatly associated with student learning. The No Child Left Behind Act requires that, by the beginning of the 2006-2007 school year, all teachers of core academic subjects in the classroom be highly qualified as determined by 3 essential criteria: (1) attaining a bachelor's degree ...