From the Chicago Tribune:

In Illinois, nearly a third of all the schools that fell short of meeting federal achievement standards this year did so solely because of the performance of students enrolled in special education, according to state report card data released this week.

The vast majority of special education students … sit down to the same questions as every other student in their grade.

If, as a group, they fail to meet standards, the entire school could face sanctions specified in the law, from having to provide tutoring to a state takeover or restructuring.

… It leaves administrators with a dilemma: They don’t want to appear to blame their special education students for causing the school to fail, but they also have to explain to parents why their school didn’t meet the bar.

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