NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT: Improved Accessibility to Education’s Information Could Help States Further Implement Teacher Qualification Requirements

November 21, 2005 NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT: Improved Accessibility to Education's Information Could Help States Further Implement Teacher Qualification RequirementsThe No Child Left Behind Act (NCLBA) of 2001 established qualification requirements that teachers of core academic subjects must meet by the end of the 2005-2006 school year. Congress has appropriated approximately $3 billion a year through the Title II, Part A (Title II), of NCLBA for teacher improvement programs since the law was passed.The GAO investigated (1) the status of state efforts to meet NCLBA's teacher qualification requirements, (2) the use of Title II funds . . .