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The Common Core demands that all students be taught at grade level.  And since states adopted Common Core just for the cash, now they have zero idea of how to accommodate both the federally mandated IDEA and the state-mandated Common Core (it's not federal, remember?)[/quote]

No, it is IDEA that mandates all students access the general education curriculum.   Not Common Core.   The federally mandated "IDEA"  -  Individuals with Disabilities Act" says that students with disabilities must be instructed in the general education curriculum.   No Child Left Behind then came along and mandated testing every student (not exempting special ed kids) on grade level and said schools had to have 70% 80% 90% 95% (they keep raising the target) of students passing the grade level tests.

But states got to design their own general ed curriculum, and their own tests.   So to be sure all 95% of students (including students with disabilities and ESOL students) could pass, they made the general ed curriculum pretty easy and made the tests very easy and allowed all sorts of accommodations.   End result.... kids who cannot read are passing 8th grade state reading tests.  And parents of kids with disabilities are saying, "How is my child passing these tests?   Why won't you teach her to read?"

However, the other end result is parents of kids with learning disabilities are not being told how far behind their students really are.   Their children are managing to graduate though, so as long as they get a diploma I guess it is ok.

Now the Common Core standards have come along and they are much harder than the old standards, and a lot of kids with disabilities aren't able to meet these standards anymore.   Standards got harder and there is less wiggle room for teachers as there were in the older standards.... kids are actually required to learn to read!  That is now an expectation.   IDEA still says kids must all be taught the general education curriculum even if it isn't appropriate for a child who has a learning disability so... [b]IDEA is what needs to be changed[/b].   Not the standards.[/quote]

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