The Quality Teacher and Education Act: First Year Report

This report presents findings from the first year of a three-year study on the implementation and effect of the Quality Teacher and Education Act (QTEA) in San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD).

This study follows a 3-stage analytic process:

• Document the passage of QTEA*
• Research QTEA’s implementation
• Evaluate the effect of QTEA

This report presents findings from the first year of implementation (2009-10).

• The focus of the research featured in this report is first year implementation, but we also provide a brief overview of implementation in the 2010-11 and 2011-12 school years for reference.

*This phase of the work has been completed. For a case study narrative of the passage of QTEA, see http://gse.berkeley.edu/research/pace/reports/WP.09-4.pdf for a policy brief on the lessons learned from the process, see http://gse.berkeley.edu/research/pace/reports/PB.09-2.pdf