States Help Schools Hide Minority Students' Scores

[TonyB06]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
[B] but not totally surprised that it is being done.

[i]States are helping public schools escape potential penalties by skirting the No Child Left Behind law's requirement that students of all races must show annual academic progress.

With the federal government's permission, schools aren't counting the test scores of nearly 2 million students when they report progress by racial groups, an Associated Press computer analysis found.

...The U.S. Education Department said it didn't know the breadth of schools' deliberate undercounting until seeing AP's findings.

"Is it too many? You bet," Education Secretary Margaret Spellings said in an interview. "Are there things we need to do to look at that, batten down the hatches, make sure those kids are part of the system? You bet."

If it's being done with the fed. govt's permission, how can you not know the extent of the undercounting?

"Is it too many? You bet?"---->translation.. dayum, yall caught us.

CT4, I think Mary McCloud Bethune is weeping again.....