According to an article published in the Tuscaloosa News, Plan 2020, Alabama’s new accountability program, uses race, socioeconomic status, disability, and English language mastery to determine academic proficiency. For example, the following are percentages needed for third-graders to pass math in their subgroups for 2013:
– 93.6 percent of Asian/Pacific Islander students
– 91.5 percent of white students
– 90.3 percent of American Indian students
– 89.4 percent of multiracial students
– 85.5 percent of Hispanic students
– 82.6 percent of students in poverty
– 79.6 percent of English language-learner students
– 79 percent of black students
– 61.7 percent of special needs students
Perhaps things are not so bad in North Carolina.
HT: Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest’s letter to the NC Department of Public Instruction alerted me to this story (see Appendix J of the letter).
