Illinois: Officials Reject State Test Requests

[Francis Hult]

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Officials Reject State Test Requests

 

U.S. Department of Education officials this month rejected Illinois requests to ease the blow of dropping a special test for students who are still learning English. 

 

The Illinois State Board of Education requested, and federal officials refused, to allow districts to exclude the scores of English learners when calculating whether they met state and federal standards. 

 

The state also asked permission to discount the math and reading scores of students who have been in the Illinois school system for fewer than two years. 

 

The law already allows districts to toss out the scores of students who have lived in the country for less than a year. 

 

State Superintendent Christopher Koch called the requested accommodations "common sense" in a letter to the department of education. 

 

But a representative from the Department of Education replied that those accommodations would undermine the law's intent, which is to hold schools accountable for student achievement. 

 

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