ESEA (No Child Left Behind Act) Clause Samples

ESEA (No Child Left Behind Act). The District and the Association shall agree upon and/or develop the local ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ISD Academic Assessment (LCISDAA) for Title I para educators subject to approval of the Michigan Department of Education. The local assessment can fulfill the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (20 USC 6319(c)). Both the Administration and the Union acknowledge that para educator is the language of the ESEA/No Child Left Behind Act. In Article 9, Section 9.5, para educator refers to the Paraprofessional staff defined in Article 2, 2.16.

ESEA (No Child Left Behind Act) a. The District shall notify each teacher in writing by October 1 of each year of their “highly qualified” status under the No Child Left Behind Act (“NCLB”) for his /her current school year teaching assignment. The Association shall be provided a copy of each notice. It is the responsibility of each teacher to properly and timely fill out any forms the District may require and submit to the District verification of any tests or courses passed which are relevant to his/her “highly qualified” status. b. The District and the Association share a common interest in seeing that all members of the teaching staff who must obtain “highly qualified” status under the NCLB do so. In achieving that goal, teachers shall become “highly qualified” based on the “highly qualified” model or models selected by the District (that includes the high objective uniform state standards of evaluation [HOUSSE] process)from among those approved by both the United States Department of Education and the Michigan Department of Education. c. If any actions required by the Board or District under NCLB result in a duty to bargain under the Public Employment Relations Act, bargaining shall be initiated by the parties in a time frame sufficient to allow a reasonable opportunity for bargaining prior to the deadlines specified in the NCLB. d. A teacher who is required as of the end of the 2005-06 school year to be “highly qualified” (as defined by the NCLB and the Michigan Department of Education) for his/her teaching assignment under the NCLB and is not “highly qualified” for his/her teaching assignment shall be granted the first vacancy he/she applies for if he/she is fully qualified and fully certificated for the vacancy. If there is no vacancy for which said teacher is fully qualified and fully certificated and the district determines not to continue the teacher’s current assignment, said teacher shall be placed on layoff and is subject to recall to a vacancy said teacher is fully qualified and fully certificated to fill. As used in the Section, the terms “fully qualified” and “fully certificated” include being “highly qualified.” In the event of conflict between the provisions of this Section and the vacancy, layoff, and/or recall provisions of this Agreement, the provisions of this Section shall supercede and take precedence over such other vacancy, layoff and/or recall provisions. e. For the purposes of this Section, reference to “NCLB” shall include the state companion legislation toge...