For years, the U.S. Department of Education allowed Ohio and a few other states to count more scores than allowed for everyone else as passing when it came exams for students with severe cognitive disabilities, some of whom take tests that are different than other students.
They were making an exception to a rule that said states could only count as passing the scores of up to 1 percent of all students tested when figuring out school ratings under the No Child Left Behind law.
The point of the Education Department's rules about so-called "1 percent" exams (at least for most states) was to ensure that districts don't give alternate exams to student with disabilities who can take the same exams as kids without disabilities. Knowing they can only count 1 percent of the scores regardless of how many kids take the exams was supposed to curb the inappropriate use of these alternate tests, because the scores from the remaining alternate exams count as failing when tallying a district's rating.
Read more of Nirvi Shah's On Special Education article HERE.
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