I've posted before about the evidence of standardized test cheating in Illinois. Now the cheating probe is widening to include other schools:
A state investigation into cheating on standardized tests at Younge Middle School is expanding to include other District 189 schools. The Illinois State Board of Education probe was triggered after it learned Younge's principal had excluded about 100 special education students from taking the Illinois Standards Achievement Test -- a breach of federal law.
Although the state probe is not yet finished -- data from three schools have not yet been submitted -- board investigators have discovered that special education students at other District 189 schools also were kept from taking the ISAT, state Superintendent Robert Schiller said.
I've always thought that any aspect of NCLB that was going to raise the most outcry - and prompt the most reform in both NCLB and other laws - would be the special education issues. Some schools are complaining that including special education students is meaningless and gives the school a bad reputation; other schools apparently have decided to ignore the special education testing requirements.
Posted by kswygert at December 1, 2003 12:11 PM