Due to the requirement under the federal No
Child Left Behind Act that each state's Title I plan must describe «the specific steps that the state education agency will take to ensure that
poor and minority children are not taught at higher rates than other
children by inexperienced, unqualified, or out - of - field teachers
and the measures that the state education agency will use to evaluate
and publicly report the progress,» TEA formed a stakeholder group,
upon which TCTA served, to develop its State Educator Equity Plan.