After reading about the restrictions the U.S. Department of Education has placed on the public schools in all states for special education students, it doesn't seem fair that most students are tested without modifications. Maybe they just figure that there will be so many students fail anyway but it is not fair to the students to put them through this kind of pressure. Many are set up to fail before they even take the tests.
The article I read, States Pressured to Curb Test Exemptions for Disabled Students by Nirvi Shah,
stated that only one percent could be exempt. The article also said that it use only exempt one half of a percent but they have raised it to the one percent that is current. This article is a recent article published May 4, 2011 at: http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2011/05/03/30disabled_ep.h30.html. The one percent would only cover the most severe students in special education. The article states that the exemptions "are not intended for children with moderate disabilities, said Ricki Sabia, the associate director of the policy center for the National Down Syndrome Society, based in New York City" (Shah, Nirvi, 2011).
This article explains how the one percent cap works for special education students in public schools. You can read this article at: http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2011/05/03/30disabled_ep.h30.html. The title is: States Pressured to Curb Test Exemptions for Disabled Students and is written by Nirvi Shah.
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