Here's Something to Remember When Certain School Board Candidates Campaign on Cutting Teacher Pay and Benefits:

Wisconsin teachers among best
98 percent of state's teachers ranked 'highly qualified'
Think your children's teachers know their stuff?
The vast majority do, including all but 2 percent of Wisconsin teachers. But many others are teaching courses they have yet to master, four years after President Bush signed into law the No Child Left Behind Act requiring most public school classrooms to have "highly qualified" instructors by the end of this school year or risk losing federal money.
The overall news is good for parents. States reported that on average 86 percent of classes had qualified teachers during 2003-04, the latest school year with available data. Washington state and Montana were at the top (99 percent), and states such as California (52 percent) and Tennessee (58 percent) were among the lowest.
Wisconsin ranks highly for highly qualified teachers in core academic class, with 98 percent of teachers having that designation. In Oshkosh, 100 percent of teachers are highly qualified, according to Human Resources Director John Sprangers.
In Wisconsin, a teacher is ranked as "highly qualified" if he or she meets the requirements to be licensed under state law because the criteria for the two are so similar, according to the state Department of Public Instruction.
"I think it's a reflection on the Wisconsin system for licensure. The concerns that drove that legislation, came from other parts of the country," Sprangers said.