That's the title of a story in today's San Antonio Express-News. LINK
Nearly every state, including Texas, has been ignoring a federal law requiring them to monitor the number of inadequate teachers in the nation's poor and minority schools and come up with a strategy to make sure those students are getting the teaching they deserve, according to a report released Thursday by Education Trust, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group.
"Most states aren't acknowledging the disparity," said trust policy director Ross Wiener.
No Child Left Behind, the sweeping education reform signed into law by President Bush in 2002, mandates that states address the practice of disproportionately assigning inadequate teachers to work in the poorest schools.
Until July 7, however, when the U.S. Department of Education required states to present plans to remedy the problem, the federal government never enforced that portion of the law.
The lack of policing by the federal government has had profound results, according to the Education Trust study of plans from all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
The Education Trust's press release is here. The full report, "Teaching Inequality: How Poor and Minority Students Are Shortchanged on Teacher Quality" is here.
