[EDLING:1701] Feds ask state to meet No Child testing law

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Feds ask state to meet No Child testing law 
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Virginia must show by August that it applies the same standard to all K-12 pupils, regardless of English proficiency, or risk losing aid money.

BY ANGELA FOREST 
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July 8 2006

The federal government wants Virginia to prove that it tests students who don't speak English as a first language as well as it tests students who take the state's Standards of Learning exams. 

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