http://www.styleweekly.com/styleweekly/disabling-our-children/Content?oid=1366292 Comments On: Disabling Our Children by Carol AOWolf en-us Copyright 2013 Style Weekly. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Style Weekly readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Style Weekly. Colby.Rogers@pilotonline.com (Style Weekly Webmaster) Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:01 -0400 Wed, 22 May 2013 02:30:00 -0400 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
"The read-aloud accommodation on the statewide reading assessments is allowed only for students with a visual impairment, including blindness, and those students with a specific disability that severely limits or prevents them from decoding text at any level of difficulty as determined by a diagnostic tool or instrument that was administered by a certified authority. Students with disabilities who are simply having difficulty reading text and/or are reading below grade-level are not allowed the read-aloud accommodation on the statewide reading assessments."

This is exactly what is stated in the Super's memo.
Posted by Anonymous]]> Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Style Weekly
Which says on the bottom of page 15:

The read-aloud accommodation on the statewide reading assessments is allowed only for students with a visual impairment, including blindness, and those students with a specific disability that severely limits or prevents them from decoding text at any level of difficulty as determined by a diagnostic tool or instrument that was administered by a certified authority.
Posted by Ex-sped RPS]]> Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Style Weekly
Are you now a spokesman for the system or are you speaking for your school? Or are you speaking as an individual?
Posted by We Need a NEW School Board]]> Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Style Weekly Posted by Ex-sped RPS]]> Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Style Weekly Posted by Anonymous]]> Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Style Weekly
RPS does not have a monopoly on gaming the system in order to make AYP under NCLB.
Posted by Anonymous]]> Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Style Weekly
If you do a google on "read-aloud accommodation virginia", there are lots of items pertaining to this accommodation. It seems that when Cannaday was state Superintendent, it was decided that Virginia's SOL reading test primarily assesses comprehension, so therefore decoding, fluency, vocabulary were all erased from the definition of reading, in clear noncomplicance of NCLB.
Posted by Anonymous]]> Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Style Weekly Posted by Anonymous]]> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Style Weekly Posted by Greg Muzik]]> Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Style Weekly Posted by Th. Jefferson]]> Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Style Weekly Posted by Chesterfield Mom who knows the score]]> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Style Weekly Posted by Anonymous]]> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Style Weekly Posted by RPS Special Ed Teacher]]> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Style Weekly
Carol's Blog: http://saveourschools-getrealrichmond.blogspot.com/2009/06/their-cheating-hearts-when-will-they.html

John's data: http://crankytaxpayer.org/Schools/alternative_assessment.htm
Posted by John]]> Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Style Weekly