Official: No Child Test Contradicts Disability Act

The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL › February 02, 2005

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STREATOR -- The federal No Child Left Behind concept sounds great, but when it leaves children in tears because they are feeling left behind, it needs fixing, according to Streator grade school superintendent Ed Allen.

The progress of students will again be measured in March to determine how students are doing, but the No Child testing is in direct contradiction with the Illinois Disabilities in Education Act that mandates how special education students are tested, said Allen.

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Official: No Child Test Contradicts Disability Act

Success with the Illinois law requires disabled students to do better than they had in the past, something Allen said S...

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