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10-18-2011
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Action Alert: Changes to NCLB
The No Child Left Behind act is currently being considered for reauthorization by the Senate HELP Committee (Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions).
On October 19 it is expected that Senator Isakson (R-GA) will offer an amendment S 1571. This amendment will allow states to lower the academic expectations for children with disabilities based on their scores of state accountability tests. Students without a disability who score poorly on this test will be provided with additional remediation; children with disabilities will not. Current special education law allows schools to use alternate forms of assessment (rather than the standard state accountability test) but limits the number of students who can be tested by alternative means (a certain percentage of all students with a disability). Amendment S 1571 would remove those limits, effectively allowing schools to use alternative testing for all students with disabilities. By doing this, there would be no way to track whether students with disabilities are making adequate academic progress compared to their non-disabled peers. Through these measures, it would be possible for schools to take students with disabilities off the track to earning a HS diploma as young as 3rd grade and to do so just because they receive special education services. Potentially, it would also be possible for schools to identify low-scoring students as disabled in order to remove their test scores from state accountability systems. This amendment threatens to undo all the hard work of parents, teachers, and students with disabilities who have fought for educational equality and accountability. Read more here: http://www.wrightslaw.com/info/esea.amend.s1571.htm http://www.wrightslaw.com/nltr/11/al.1017.esea.htm Then contact your Senator and ask him/her to vote NO on the Isakson Amendment S 1571.
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Gena DS: age 9, my rare and extraordinary little man. “Autistics are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg." - Paul Collins, Not Even Wrong 
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10-21-2011
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I haven't posted on the BBB in a long time, but I had to post this update:
The amendment failed: http://www.autismpolicyblog.com/2011...goes-down.html Thank you, Gena, for posting. I'm sorry I didn't see your post sooner, but I'm glad the amendment failed.
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DS '04 "Boogaboo" DD '08 "Lilybear" Last edited by sariana; 10-21-2011 at 02:09 AM.
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10-21-2011
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Thanks for posting the update, Sarina. I'm so glad and relieved the amendment failed.
Thank you to everyone who read and took action!
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Gena DS: age 9, my rare and extraordinary little man. “Autistics are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg." - Paul Collins, Not Even Wrong
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10-22-2011
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It's another time I wonder who really thought this was a good idea that they even proposed it.
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Jenn M - my 7 yo ADHD/anxiety monkey. TT - my 4yo tiny terror. "Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That’s just common sense!" "I don’t have a fear of heights. I do, however, have a fear of falling from heights." “No comment” is a comment." "The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it." "Atheism is a non-prophet organization." - George Carlan
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