• School System Consequences of Including students with Disabilities in Large Scale: Before and After No Child Left Behind

2003

This technical report describes what has happened to school systems (state and local education agencies, individual schools, and teachers) as they try to include students with disabilities in their assessment and accountability systems. Despite legislation that mandated that every state include students with disabilities (IDEA 1997), many states have not done this, or they have only partially included students with disabilities. With the passage of No Child Left Behind 2001, not only are all states required to include students with disabilities, but an array of sanctions have been put in place for states, school districts, and even teachers. Based on the experiences of states that have fully included students with disabilities in their accountability measure, we will look discuss consequences that will affect these school systems, such as: rewards and sanctions, teacher burn-out, instruction and curriculum changes, academic and content standards.

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