Rep. Michael M. Honda, D-Calif., a former public school teacher and principal, said the Education Department’s lack of flexibility in enforcing the law’s requirement that teachers be “highly qualified” had “forced good teachers to change positions because their certification is not exactly what is required by their teaching assignment.”
To make his point, he asked Secretary Spellings whether she had teaching certification or had ever worked directly in a school.
“What in your background makes you a highly qualified secretary of education?” he asked.
Ms. Spellings noted that she had been a substitute teacher in Texas—a position which did not require certification—but had majored in journalism and political science.
“My background preparation for this job is in the policy arena,” she said.
Those who are profoundly ignorant of education and educational issues by way of having little or NO experience as a professional educator should NOT be making policy.
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