NO TEACHER LEFT BEHIND?

Since being enacted in 2002, the No Child Left Behind Act has primarily targeted student achievement: How they are taught and tested.

But three years later, another provision of the highly controversial education legislation is taking aim at teachers. The act requires that all public school teachers be deemed "highly qualified" by the end of the 2005-2006 school year, and as the deadline quickly approaches, school districts across the country are scrambling to meet the requirement.

Locally, the Southern Cayuga Central School District was the only district that has 100 percent highly qualified teachers as of the 2003-2004 academic year.