Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
"No Child Left Behind" (NCLB)

April 5, 2004
NCLB UPDATE
New Flexibility for Rural Teachers

The New Flexibility for Rural Teachers--Under this new policy, teachers in eligible, rural districts who are highly qualified in at least one subject will have three years (2007) to become highly qualified in the additional subjects they teach. They must also be provided professional development, intense supervision or structured mentoring to become highly qualified in those additional subjects.

In order to have the status of Rural a district must meet one of the following:

Have six hundred or less students district wide
or
Ten students or less per square mile within the district
or
Be assigned a number 7 or 8 on the United States Census Count

Teachers that have Master's Degree in the following are highly qualified:

General Curriculum
Subject Matter Area
General Education

Teachers that have a RX Endorsement may teach any of the four core academic subject History, Geography, Economic, and Government/Civics.

Teachers that have a CX Endorsement with a group major and show course work in History, Geography, Economics and Government/Civics may teach any of the four listed core academic subjects.

A teacher may teach middle school group Foreign Language if the teacher is certified in one of the Foreign language he/she is teaching.