Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Feds Pan NY's Disabled/LEP Test
Four years after the signing of the No Child Left Behind Law, more signs that the feds are starting to actually enforce it? The New York Times' David Herszenhorn reports this morning that the U.S. Education Department has determined that New York State's methods of marking the annual progress of disabled students and students with limited English proficiency doesn't cut it under the federal No Child Left Behind law.
The state's English as a Second Language Achievement Test is not sufficiently comparable with the regular ELA exam to use as a substitute. Meanwhile tests for special education students were not found to be suitable for their grade or age.
The state must fix the problem within a year or it risks losing $1.2 million in federal aid.
The state's English as a Second Language Achievement Test is not sufficiently comparable with the regular ELA exam to use as a substitute. Meanwhile tests for special education students were not found to be suitable for their grade or age.
The state must fix the problem within a year or it risks losing $1.2 million in federal aid.
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