Did you get this letter from DCPS? No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and Highly Qualified Teachers

[Anonymous]

I got a letter dated February 2014 my son has an IEP he is in the 12th and will not and can not pass he did not get the service that he should have it a cover up what should I do

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another piece of information: experienced, licensed educators in DCPS have been riffed in order to make spaces for unlicensed Teach for America teachers

PP here. I am going to have to push back on this. I have been in DCPS for five years, and we had one RIF (Reduction in Force), and I will agree that it was bogus. And after a long drawn out court battle the wrongly RIFed teachers were given jobs back.
What happens, most often is that teachers are seperated from the district due to poor performance evaluations, and then spots are opened up for other teachers and TFA DCTF folks. Secondly, most of the places that TFA and DCTF goes- no one else wants to go into. The alt. cert. teachers are taking jobs that would often go unfilled if not for optimistic new teachers.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another piece of information: experienced, licensed educators in DCPS have been riffed in order to make spaces for unlicensed Teach for America teachers

PP here. I am going to have to push back on this. I have been in DCPS for five years, and we had one RIF (Reduction in Force), and I will agree that it was bogus. And after a long drawn out court battle the wrongly RIFed teachers were given jobs back.
What happens, most often is that teachers are seperated from the district due to poor performance evaluations, and then spots are opened up for other teachers and TFA DCTF folks. Secondly, most of the places that TFA and DCTF goes- no one else wants to go into. The alt. cert. teachers are taking jobs that would often go unfilled if not for optimistic new teachers.

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Totally bogus in DC. DCPS does not have to hire TFA or DCTF to fill riffed positions, they do, but it is because they have contracted with DCP to place a number of TFA/DCTF for the past few years. As other have said, they only have 5 weeks experience over the summer initially and are often not teaching in their content areas. Example, they teach elementary ESL or math over the summer but end up teaching high school English. However, OSSE does not send out letters saying they are not qualified!!!