State of New Jersey Department of Education

The New Jersey Model for Highly Qualified Teachers
District Role

Districts must
Provide schools and teachers with the orientation, inservice and support needed to complete the Highly Qualified Teacher identification process including, where necessary,
     Teacher Identification forms, Forms A through E,
     the NJ HOUSE Standard - Content Knowledge Matrix (Form F); and
     the Statement of Assurance (Forms G and H)
Gather and maintain the data with regard to Highly Qualified Teachers at the building level. These records will be kept on file at the building level and will be subject to the regular state monitoring process.
Provide to parent letters regarding teacher credentials to parents of students in Title I funded programs, in mid-November.

If a district has failed to make progress toward increasing the number of Highly Qualified Teachers it employs?
If a district fails for two consecutive years to make progress toward meeting the annual objectives, then that district must develop an improvement plan.
The improvement plan must be designed to help the district meet the state's annual measurable objectives for increasing the percentage of highly qualified teachers and must address issues that prevented the district from meeting those objectives.

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