No Child Left Behind Back Story

By Lyanne Melendez

California needs to hire more credentialed teachers to meet the “highly qualified teacher” provision of the No Child Left Behind Act.

So I asked Deborah Hirsh, the chief administrator of the San Francisco Unified School District what they were doing to recruit more credentialed teachers.

Hirsh says proposition A, a parcel tax on the June ballot is expected to help. The measure would pay for higher salaries for new teachers. These incoming teachers would start out earning nearly $5,000 more that what they get today.

So, a starting teacher salary at the SFUSD would be $50,000. But there is more. On top of that, they would get $2,500 more if they teach math, science or special education and another $2,500 if they teach in low performing schools.

Here’s a link to Proposition A :
http://portal.sfusd.edu/template/default.cfm?page=news.quality_teacher

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