Illinois students may lose their right to college

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Illinois decided to abandon traditional graduate testing and developed the so-called College Readiness and Career Assessment (PARCC) test, following the advice of teachers.

But it turned out that this innovation violates the federal law on education, in connection with which the Department of Education threatened to withdraw state funds for education from the state, because testing of Illinois high school students in 2015-2016 passed not in accordance with state requirements, writes Chicago Tribune.

Not all students were given the same tasks in literature and mathematics, in addition, some students were excluded from testing, including children with very high academic performance.

In April, the Department of Education added Illinois to a list of high-risk states that do not adhere to federal testing requirements. This status put at risk the money that the state allocated to the state for education.

The decision to add staff to the “high risk” list was due to the fact that Illinois was unable to ensure the same attitude to all students, explained in the Department.

The testing problem is not related to the application of the PARCC test for students of 3-8 classes.

Federal law requires students to be tested in math and literature at least once in high school (9-11 classes), but since the 2014 year, Illinois introduced the PARCC test, so some 2016 graduates of the year have never passed the math test and literature.

In 2015 and 2016, Illinois allowed PARCC schools to choose which tests they would administer. So one school tested in elementary English, another tested in intermediate algebra, etc. The logistics were quite complicated, so some districts of the state announced that students in those districts would not take the math and literature tests as required federal law until high school graduation.

Given this situation, the Department of Education ordered Illinois to solve this problem before 31 in August and undertake to introduce an equal way of evaluating all students, as well as to conduct tests in mathematics and literature, starting with the 2016-17 school year.

In addition, the state will pay for the necessary tests in literature and mathematics for graduates who have not passed them, because otherwise they will not be able to go to colleges.

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