Posted on 07/11/2006 6:26:01 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Students who are learning English as a second language could soon have to take the regular state English exam.
The federal government has informed New York State that some of its testing methods don't comply with the No Child Left Behind law. The finding applies to tests given to students with disabilities and those with limited proficiency in English.
Richard Mills, the state education commissioner, was notified of the finding in a letter from Henry Johnson, the assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education. The state could lose one-point-two million dollars if the problem isn't corrected within a year.
That means that students who now take the state's English as a Second Language Achievement Test may soon have to take the regular state English exam.
The horror of it all! /s
Couldn't they just allow New York to change the program name to "A Child Left Behind Every Now And Then".
Texas has already been through all of this. NY is between a rock and a hard place.
...or "No Child Gets Ahead"
With all of the various scoring systems, schools have determined which group of students will get them "the most bang for their buck" in bringing up the school's scores; and focus on those students.
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