Tracking Teacher Quality
States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico submitted the following figures to the federal government on "highly qualified" teachers.
| Classes taught by | Classes taught by | |
| States | "highly qualified" | "highly qualified" |
| teachers statewide | teachers in high- poverty schools | |
| Alabama | 35.30% | 29% |
| Alaska | 16 | 16 |
| Arizona | - | - |
| Arkansas | 97 | 97 |
| California | 48 | 35 |
| Colorado | 85.7 | 84.6 |
| Connecticut | 96 | 94.7 |
| Delaware | 85 | 85 |
| District of Columbia | 74.6 | 65.4 |
| Florida | 91.1 | 92.9 |
| Georgia | 94 | 95 |
| Hawaii | 86.7 | 84 |
| Idaho | 98.1 | 98.6 |
| Illinois | - | - |
| Indiana | 96.2 | 95 |
| Iowa | 94.8 | 94.7 |
| Kansas | 80 | 80 |
| Kentucky | 95 | 97 |
| Louisiana | - | - |
| Maine | - | - |
| Maryland | 64.5 | 46.6 |
| Massachusetts | 96 * | 93 * |
| Michigan | 95 | 90 |
| Minnesota | 96 ** | 94.1 ** |
| Mississippi | 85 | 81 |
| Missouri | 94.7 | 93.6 |
| Montana | - | - |
| Nebraska | 90 | 82 |
| Nevada | 50 | 50 |
| New Hampshire | 86 | 84 |
| New Jersey | - | - |
| New Mexico | - | - |
| New York | - | - |
| North Carolina | - | - |
| North Dakota | 91.1 | 93.8 |
| Ohio | 82 | 78 |
| Oklahoma | 64 | 57 |
| Oregon | 81.8 | 71.5 |
| Pennsylvania | 95 | 93 |
| Puerto Rico | 25 | 25 |
| Rhode Island | 63 | 58 |
| South Carolina | - | - |
| South Dakota | 85.7 | 16.4 |
| Tennessee | - | - |
| Texas | 75.8 | 69.3 |
| Utah | 95.9 | 96.4 |
| Vermont | 92 | 93 |
| Virginia | 80 | 73 |
| Washington | 83 | 88 |
| West Virginia | 94 | 96 |
| Wisconsin | 98.6 | 96.9 |
| Wyoming | 95 | 99 |
-- State did not provide data.
* Margin of error is plus or minus 1 percent, from samples.
** Percentage of teachers who are "highly qualified," rather than percentage of classes taught by "highly qualified" teachers.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education 2007
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