‘New test for special education students is making schools nervous:
Teachers still don’t know what will be on tests or how they’ll affect accountability ratings’

From the Austin American-Statesman: Schools across Texas are bracing for a change that will force some students in special education to take tougher tests than have been required for them in years past. Some school officials worry that the change could hurt their federal accountability ratings.

The exam will be given for the first time next spring, and some special education students will have to be tested at their grade levels instead of their actual learning levels.

… State officials have been scrambling to compile the test since April, when new and controversial federal regulations mandated that states either develop grade-level tests for some special education students or require that those students take a regular state accountability test, a move that probably would be brutal for most school ratings.

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