Kentucky gets more unfavorable attention for excluding students from federal tests

This time, its our out of line exclusion of English language learners

Questions have already been raised by me and others about Kentucky’s nation-leading exclusion of students with learning disabilities from the National Assessment of Educational Progress reading tests in 2011.

Now, Education Week reports that Kentucky is also being spotlighted for abnormally high exclusion rates for immigrant students who are still learning English in its public schools.

That just adds to the uncertainty about the real validity of Kentucky’s 2011 scores.