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Table 3-2. Teachers employed (FTE) to provide special education and related services to students
ages 6 through 21 under IDEA, Part B, by qualification status and state: Fall 2006

State
Total
employedª
Highly
Qualified
Not Highly
Qualified
Alabama 5,600 4,910 690
Alaska 990 845 145
Arizona 5,976 5,144 832
Arkansas 3,803 3,489 314
California 32,169 28,917 3,252
Colorado 4,765 4,245 520
Connecticut 4,892 4,892 0
Delaware 1,465 738 727
District of Columbia - - -
Florida 17,155 7,879 9,276
Georgia 15,376 13,609 1,767
Hawaii 1,813 1,366 447
Idaho 1,105 988 117
Illinois 19,902 19,831 71
Indiana 7,032 6,751 281
Iowa 5,761 5,761 0
Kansas 3,890 3,077 813
Kentucky 6,569 6,216 353
Louisiana 6,350 4,209 2,141
Maine 2,818 2,573 244
Maryland 8,171 6,273 1,898
Massachusetts 8,630 7,632 998
Michigan 12,991 12,675 316
Minnesota 8,476 7,943 533
Mississippi 1,124 853 271
Missouri 9,155 8,949 206
Montana 826 808 18
Nebraska 2,320 2,206 114
Nevada 2,586 2,207 379
New Hampshire 2,656 2,656 0
New Jersey 19,062 18,300 762
New Mexico 2,433 2,107 326
New York 39,888 34,203 5,685
North Carolina 10,264 9,860 403
North Dakota 825 792 32
Ohio 19,431 18,712 719
Oklahoma 7,948 5,967 1,981
Oregon 3,422 3,053 369
Pennsylvania 20,304 18,723 1,580
Rhode Island 1,876 1,566 310
South Carolina 6,112 5,665 447
South Dakota 915 729 186
Tennessee 6,070 5,322 748
Texas 22,628 21,686 942
Utah 2,509 1,948 561
Vermont 1,058 981 77
Virginia 13,322 11,175 2,146
Washington 5,195 5,020 175
West Virginia 2,818 2,506 312
Wisconsin 7,836 7,515 321
Wyoming 440 358 82
 
BIE schools 505 470 35
 
50 states and D.C. (including BIE schools)b 399,222 354,298 44,924
 
American Samoa 164 53 111
Guam 237 147 90
Northern Marianas 33 20 13
Puerto Rico 4,779 4,498 281
Virgin Islands 142 47 95
 
U.S. and outlying areasb 404,577 359,063 45,514
 
 
Source:  U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, Data Analysis System (DANS), OMB #1820-0518:  "Personnel
(in Full-Time Equivalency of Assignment) Employed To Provide Special Education and Related Services for
Children with Disabilities," 2006.  Data updated as of July 15, 2008.
 
Note:  Please see Part B Personnel Data Notes in appendix B for information the state submitted to clarify its data submission.
 
ªBecause the personnel data are collected using full-time equivalency (FTE) fractions, and this table shows only the
rounded values, the Total employed column may not equal the sum of the highly qualified and not highly qualified columns.
 
bThe total FTE for the U.S. and outlying areas and the 50 states and D.C. (including BIE schools) may not
 equal the sum of the individual states and outlying areas because of rounding.
 
- Data not available.