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3 districts fail U.S. standards: Accommodating special-needs students leads to test scores being thrown out.

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| September 13, 2007 | COPYRIGHT 2007 The Arizona Daily Star. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Andrea Rivera

Sep. 13--Three Northwest Side school districts failed to meet federal standards largely because some schools did not have enough test scores.

Schools in the Amphitheater, Flowing Wells and Marana districts mostly failed to make Adequate Yearly Progress, or AYP, because scores were thrown out after special-education students were allowed to use accommodations, such as calculators, on annual assessment tests.

Once the scores were thrown out, schools didn't have the required number of test scores for students in particular subgroups. Ninety-five percent of students must be tested or a school automatically fails.

Flowing Wells High School, 3725 N. Flowing Wells Road, failed for the second year in a row after it allowed 11 special- education students to use calculators on the AIMs test. Twelve…

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