All Subjects: Percent of Core Classes Not Taught by Highly Qualified Teachers 2005-06

(Numbers in parentheses show the percent in 2004-05)

 

 

Core

Subject Areas

 

New York State-All Public Schools

Need/Resource Capacity (N/RC Category)

High N/RC Districts

New York

City

 

Buffalo

 

Rochester

 

Syracuse

 

Yonkers

Elementary (one or more subjects)

 (4.3) 3.1%

 (9.6)   6.4%

 (1.0) 0.8%

(6.4)  6.0%

(4.7)   7.4%

(0.6) 0.2%

English

 (8.7) 4.9%

(24.7) 13.3%

 (3.0) 0.8%

 (1.6)   7.1%

 (4.3)   8.8%

(1.2) 0.0%

Mathematics

 (7.9) 5.7%

(21.9) 15.2%

 (3.7) 1.4%

(15.8) 17.2%

 (8.8)   7.3%

(3.7) 1.7%

Reading

 (7.5) 4.7%

(31.4) 18.2%

 (2.0) 1.8%

(34.1) 44.9%

(4.4) 16.1%

(----) 0.0%

Science

 (9.7) 8.0%

(25.1) 20.3%

 (13.1) 9.8%

(5.8) 16.0%

 (9.3)   9.7%

(6.5) 1.7%

Social Studies

 (4.6) 3.9%

(12.9)   9.9%

 (3.1) 1.0%

  (7.3)   8.0%

 (1.8)   3.3%

(----) 0.0%

Arts

 (6.9) 7.8%

(31.3) 30.8%

 (5.9) 0.7%

 (7.4)   9.4%

 (7.9)   9.1%

(1.1) 1.4%

Foreign Languages

(11.2) 8.7%

(24.4) 17.4%

(28.4) 12.9%

(19.4) 21.5%

(40.7) 48.3%

(2.6) 0.0%

All other core classes (career and technical, special education, bilingual, multiple subjects, unspecified subjects)

(10.2) 9.0%

(24.4) 20.1%

 (7.6) 5.9%

(15.3) 16.2%

(10.6) 13.4%

(2.9) 0.5%

Total

(7.9) 5.5%

(21.4) 13.0%

 (6.8) 2.8%

(11.6) 10.6%

(9.3) 10.6%

(2.9) 0.6%