States Omit Minorities’ School Scores
This is according to the AP!
States are helping public schools escape potential penalties by skirting the No Child Left Behind law’s requirement that students of all races must show annual academic progress.
With the federal government’s permission, schools aren’t counting the test scores of nearly 2 million students when they report progress by racial groups, an Associated Press computer analysis found.
Students whose tests aren’t being counted in required categories include Hispanics in California who don’t speak English well, blacks in the Chicago suburbs, American Indians in the Northwest and special education students in Virginia, AP found.
No test scores from Texas’ 65,000 Asian students or from several thousand American Indian students are broken out by race. The same is true in Arkansas.
April 17, 2006 - 11:42 PM on April 17th, 2006
Is this the same underfunded mandate “No Child Left Behind” mandate we’ve heard about before?
April 18, 2006 - 12:08 AM on April 18th, 2006
part 2: Love It! Exploits the racisit and economical passions of right wingers. So glad you are not my neighbr, Peejz.
April 18, 2006 - 05:43 AM on April 18th, 2006
2-Exploits the racisit and economical passions of right wingers. How does it do that? Are all the schools that are seeking the exceptions right-wingers? I didn’t think so..next..:roll:
April 18, 2006 - 05:51 AM on April 18th, 2006
Welcome to “another legacy of the Great Society and outcome-based curriculum.”
“Meredith, what is the product of 7 X 14?”
“98, sir.”
“Hmp. ok. LaKesha, what is the difference between 19 and 4?”
“mmmm, 13?”
“Very GOOD try, ‘kesha! You get an ‘A’ for effort. Choun Yee, if the vertical line of a right triangle is 5 feet long and the horizontal line is 12 feet, what is the square of the hypotenuse?”
“The square of that hypotenuse is 169.”
“Choun! You keep messing up the grading curve. Cut it out, willya?”
April 18, 2006 - 07:58 AM on April 18th, 2006
All this PC nonsense in schools its getting rediclous some school were even having speech and dress codes becuase they dont want to offend the minorities phooie i say they are stupid we dont need speech and dress codes at school what we need it a end to the NEA:mad: