American Institutes For Research Report….

is out on highly qualified teacher status rules.

A couple of things from the report:

For the 2004-2005 school year the report says around 75% of teachers were highly qualified, around 25% did not know the status they had, and around 4% were not highly qualified.

More than 50% of school districts had trouble finding highly qualified teachers for special education, math, and science.

The report is long, loads of graphics and was also slow to load up.