[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 34, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 34CFR611.1]

[Page 257]
 
                           TITLE 34--EDUCATION
 
 CHAPTER VI--OFFICE OF POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
 
PART 611_TEACHER QUALITY ENHANCEMENT GRANTS PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart A_General Provisions
 
Sec. 611.1  What definitions apply to the Teacher Quality Enhancement Grants 


Program?

    The following definitions apply to this part:
    High-need local educational agency (LEA) means an LEA that meets one 
of the following definitions:
    (1) An LEA with at least one school--
    (i) In which 50 percent or more of the enrolled students are 
eligible for free and reduced lunch subsidies; or
    (ii) That otherwise is eligible, without receipt of a waiver, to 
operate as a schoolwide program under Title I of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act.
    (2) An LEA that has one school where--
    (i) More than 34 percent of academic classroom teachers overall 
(across all academic subjects) do not have a major, minor, or 
significant course work in their main assignment field; or
    (ii) More than 34 percent of the main assignment faculty in two of 
the core-subject departments do not have a major, minor, or significant 
work in their main assigned field.
    (3) An LEA that serves a school whose attrition rate among classroom 
teachers was 15 percent or more over the last three school years.
    High-need school means an elementary, middle, or secondary school 
operated by a high-need LEA in which the school's students or teaching 
staff meet the elements in paragraphs (1), (2), or (3) of the definition 
of a high-need LEA.
    Main assignment field means the academic field in which teachers 
have the largest percentage of their classes.
    Significant course work means four or more college-or graduate-level 
courses in the content area.

(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1024(e))