A former student, Aleysha Ortiz, is suing the city of Hartford and the local board of education. Ortiz alleges she graduated without learning how to read or write. She claims it was due to negligence and lack of proper support for her developmental disabilities.
The lawsuit claims Ortiz was denied necessary testing for dyslexia. It also claims she was removed from special education curriculum and only tested for developmental disabilities on her last day of school, revealing significant unmet educational needs.
(without looking into it to verify) isn’t this likely because of “no child left behind”?
if it is, they’re doing it wrong. it means to help everyone graduate, not abandon everyone and set the bar so low everyone auto-graduates
No Child Left Behind was designed to defund schools. If it wanted to fix things, poor test results would result in a investigation and overhaul of the district. Instead it just punished the school with less federal funds.
yea so they end up just passing failing students to keep the funding going, which is kinda sad, because it will be hard for them to even survive in CC even(in our CC like many if you get too low for too many semesters you will get probation on your record. and there have been several incidence that people were expelled that way, and in these probation classes the instructor confirms that there were people that attempted to come back on the property of the school.