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611.1—What definitions apply to the Teacher Quality Enhancement Grants Program?

The following definitions apply to this part:

High-need local educational agency (LEA) means an LEA that meets one of the following definitions:

(1) An LEA with at least one school—

(i) In which 50 percent or more of the enrolled students are eligible for free and reduced lunch subsidies; or

(ii) That otherwise is eligible, without receipt of a waiver, to operate as a schoolwide program under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

(2) An LEA that has one school where—

(i) More than 34 percent of academic classroom teachers overall (across all academic subjects) do not have a major, minor, or significant course work in their main assignment field; or

(ii) More than 34 percent of the main assignment faculty in two of the core-subject departments do not have a major, minor, or significant work in their main assigned field.

(3) An LEA that serves a school whose attrition rate among classroom teachers was 15 percent or more over the last three school years.

High-need school means an elementary, middle, or secondary school operated by a high-need LEA in which the school's students or teaching staff meet the elements in paragraphs (1), (2), or (3) of the definition of a high-need LEA.

Main assignment field means the academic field in which teachers have the largest percentage of their classes.

Significant course work means four or more college-or graduate-level courses in the content area.

Code of Federal Regulations

(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1024(e) )

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