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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP have you read this?

http://www.cehd.umn.edu/NCEO/onlinepubs/Synthesis89/SynthesisReport89.pdf

The push to get all special education students to pass the grade level tests (PARCC, VA SOLs etc) isn't due to Common Core.   It's due to this waiver they are talking about in this report.   I don't understand what was behind this waiver -- states applied for a waiver a few years ago, by agreeing to do away with alternative assessments for more Special Ed kids by the year 2014-2015.   [/quote]

The waiver is from the nonsensical NCLB requirement that all children be at grade level by this year. The asshats who passed it in Congress knew it would never actually happen, but they THOUGHT they'd fix it. Instead, the Congress got so dysfunctional they can't even keep the government running much less fix a complicated bill.

So the Feds, led by the jerk of all jerks Arne Duncan, are now using the waiver to get the states to crawl and beg to whatever horrid thing they want -- in this case, the abuse of special education students.

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