SPECIAL EDUCATION
July 2004 Special Education: Additional Assistance and Better Coordination Needed Among Education Offices to Help States Meet the NCLBA Teacher Requirements In the 2002-2003 school year, all states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico required that special education teachers have a bachelor's degree and be certified to teach-two of NCLBA's teacher qualification requirements- and half required special education teachers to demonstrate subject matter competency in core academic subjects, which is the third requirement. Specifically, 24 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico required their teachers to demonstrate some level of subject matter competency by . . .
