Tuesday, April 18, 2006

State Scofflaws

AP does some digging. Good story here:
States are helping schools get around that second requirement by using a loophole in the law that allows schools to ignore scores in mandatory categories that are too small to be statistically significant.

State educators decide when a group is too small to count
. And nearly two dozen states have successfully petitioned the government to exclude larger numbers of students' test scores in the required categories.

AP's analysis focused only on scores in the law's five major racial categories: white, black, Asian, Native American and Hispanic. It found schools aren't reporting to the government 1.9 million students' scores in those categories.

State education bureaucrats are nearly always in bed with the teachers' unions. No surprise. How far will their civil disobedience go?

Do they really expect us to believe they care about the kids first?

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