The Coalition for Teaching Quality (CTQ) represents national, state, and local organizations committed to the principle that federal policy must ensure all students have access to diverse teachers and school leaders who enter the profession well prepared to succeed and prove themselves effective once there.

Together, we represent a diverse spectrum of civil rights, disability, parent, student, community, educator and education policy, and research organizations.

CTQ unites these voices in support of ensuring that all students have access to profession-ready teachers, with a particular emphasis on making certain that impactful, effective, diverse, certified teachers are in the classrooms of students in high-need schools.

As has been shown time and again, teachers and school leaders are the most important in- school factors related to student learning. More than ever, all students need diverse, well-prepared, and well supported teachers. Yet research shows that under-trained, uncertified, inexperienced, and out-of-field teachers are disproportionately concentrated in high-need schools and classrooms with a majority of students of color or low-income students.