NY teachers see bias against special ed in school rankings
February 4th, 2008From the New York Daily News:
The controversial letter grades assigned to New York schools last year appear to favor high schools with a low percentage of special education students, according to an analysis by the teachers’ union there.
The union said high schools that earned A’s provided special education services to 8% of their students compared with 15.5% at schools that earned D’s or F’s.
“They’re basically setting up large schools that have a large percentage of special ed,” said Michael Mulgrew, the union’s vice president for career and technical high schools. “It’s almost as if they rigged the system to make them fail.”
Jim Liebman, who heads the city’s grading effort, denied a special education bias in the grades
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