States Help Schools Hide Minority Scores - Yahoo! News
States Help Schools Hide Minority Scores - Yahoo! News: "By FRANK BASS, NICOLE ZIEGLER DIZON and BEN FELLER, Associated Press Writers 1 hour, 44 minutes ago
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.
Minorities — who historically haven't fared as well as whites in testing — make up the vast majority of students whose scores are being excluded, AP found. And the numbers have been rising.
'I can't believe that my child is going through testing just like the person sitting next to him or her and she's not being counted,' said Angela Smith, a single mother. Her daughter, Shunta' Winston, was among two dozen black students whose test scores weren't broken out by race at her suburban Kansas City, Mo., high school.
Under the law championed by
President Bush, all public school students must be proficient in reading and math by 2014, although only children above second grade are required to be tested."
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.
Minorities — who historically haven't fared as well as whites in testing — make up the vast majority of students whose scores are being excluded, AP found. And the numbers have been rising.
'I can't believe that my child is going through testing just like the person sitting next to him or her and she's not being counted,' said Angela Smith, a single mother. Her daughter, Shunta' Winston, was among two dozen black students whose test scores weren't broken out by race at her suburban Kansas City, Mo., high school.
Under the law championed by
President Bush, all public school students must be proficient in reading and math by 2014, although only children above second grade are required to be tested."
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