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"Donna Metler" wrote:

"Greg Hanson" wrote in message
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They also got in trouble for cherry picking for
educational testing. They weeded out kids
they THOUGHT would not pass the testing.
They put a large block of bad students into
Special Education just to keep them from
taking the standardized testing that the school
is judged on.

More abuse of Special Education or Special Needs.

Given that current law labels a school as low performing if their special
needs students don't perform on grade level, putting students in special
education doesn't help at all-and may hurt, if it gets your special ed block
large enough to count under the law. Only 1% of students can be exempted
from the test and given alternative assessments. All other special education
students must take the standard test at their grade level.

The number required for the scores to count differs from state to state. In
TN, it is 45 students in the tested grades, total-which means any school
with any size whatsoever will have such scores count.




the law is designed to designate most public schools as failures --
they require kids who don't speak English to perform in English at grade
level [the school only has to fail in one category e.g. these ESL kids
to fail as a school] they measure school success with kids who weren't
even there in a high turnover district until the end of the year, they
require retarded kids to score at grade level --- it is part of the GOP
plan to dismantle public schools and channel tax money into religious
schools