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| Title | News Article: Fairfax County, VA to Protest NCLB Tests for English Language Learners |
| Body | From http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16574031 Standoff over ‘No Child Left Behind’ heats up Fairfax County, Va., to protest mandate on English tests for immigrants By Maria Glod, WashingtonPost.com January 11, 2007 Fairfax County school officials are protesting a federal mandate to give most English learners reading tests that mirror those taken by their native-speaking peers. School board member Phillip A. Niedzielski-Eichner (Providence), backed by other members and school administrators, plans to propose a resolution that would authorize officials to refuse to give immigrant students tests that they think most would fail. The resolution could come to a vote as soon as Jan. 25. If it passes, several Fairfax schools probably will fall short of federal academic standards. School officials in Arlington and Harrisonburg are considering a similar step. As Congress prepares to debate renewal of the five-year-old federal law, controversy has emerged over how to measure the progress of children learning English. The federal government objected last year to the way Virginia and 17 other states test limited-English students. Often, federal officials indicated, the state tests for such students were not demanding enough. They said that all students in a given state must be held to the same standards. Read the entire article at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16574031 . |
| Source | MSNBC |
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