Teacher Quality

Google alerts linked me to "Teacher Quality" including this paragraph:

Some experts and researchers argue that, while efforts to improve teacher quality as a whole are necessary, significant attention should be focused on the disparities between high- and low-need schools. Quality Counts 2003: "If I Can't Learn From You...", which looked at state efforts to recruit and retain teachers, found that while students in high-poverty and high-minority schools are receiving instruction from less-qualified teachers on a variety of measures, states and districts are doing little in the way of targeting recruitment and retention efforts to find effective teachers for the students who need them the most.

I was making this argument on the MNPS Board four years ago.  We made some progress in investigating this.   Frankly, since then, the Board has moved to a 100-page "strategic plan" with so many goals and sub-goals, it's hard to know what they are focusing on.  I don't even know if this is in the plan.  Should be.