New Testing Requirements For Children With Disabilities A Plus For Virginia Schools
Previously, the Virginia schools were required to test, under the No Child Left Behind Act, many of its children with disabilities in reading, math and science, regardless of their ability to do so. Unless they were severely disabled, the children had to take state-required tests for their grade level whether or not they had the skills and understanding. Thus, many of these special students failed the tests. Testing grades were third, eighth and 11th on an annual basis.
This caused several problems that were frustrating for both the Virginia schools educators and the children:
-> Their test scores were pulling down the school state rankings. Virginia schools are required to meet annual student achievement goals based upon these test scores. If they do not meet the goals, Virginia schools experience many possible sanctions, such as losing students to better scoring schools, reorganizing or closing.
-> It made the students feel like failures, since they do not have the capacity to participate fully in the testing process at their grade level.
-> Virginia schools...
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