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From http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2014/08/florida_officials_will_fight_f.html

Florida Officials Will Fight Feds Over Testing of English-Language Learners
by Lesli A. Maxwell
August 27, 2014

Florida Gov. Rick Scott joined state education Commissioner Pam Stewart and Miami-Dade County schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho today in calling for the U.S. Department of Education to back down from its decision that the state must include test results for its newest English-language learners in its accountability system.

In a joint news conference in Miami Wednesday afternoon, the trio of Florida officials said they would formally request that U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan rescind his department's denial of a key part of Florida's application to extend its waiver from portions of the No Child Left Behind Act so that English-learners who have fewer than two years in U.S. schools would not have their test scores factored into school grades. Under federal law, English-learners who've been in U.S. schools for one year are to be tested in reading and math and have their results factored into state accountability systems.

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