Study: federal rules unfair to diverse, urban school districts
Submitted on July 11, 2005 - 12:00am.
Aleea S. Slappy - Summer 2005
WASHINGTON – It is becoming easier for the federal government to label school districts with high numbers of minority and low-income students as failures, according to a study by Harvard University's Civil Rights Project.
The study, “Changing No Child Left Behind District Accountability Standards: Implications for Racial Equity,” examines changes in how the federal government rates the success of schools.
In the past, the U.S. Department of Education looked at individual schools, but last year it began to examine entire school districts and subgroups of students in those districts by race and handicap.
The study, “Changing No Child Left Behind District Accountability Standards: Implications for Racial Equity,” examines changes in how the federal government rates the success of schools.
In the past, the U.S. Department of Education looked at individual schools, but last year it began to examine entire school districts and subgroups of students in those districts by race and handicap.
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