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However what they don't tell you is that even special ed students & foreign kids who don't even speak English are also used in the percentages and that is not fair...I know this for a fact because my wife is a teacher, the Administrators and the Politicians are the only ones to benefit from this fiasco.

I find it necessary to totally disagree with you. My wife is a teacher dealing with dyslexia and reading recovery. According to her the real benefits of testing rose dramatically after exemptions for learning disabilities were removed. The delivery of the test is modified to compensate for the student's specific disability, however they are tested on the material and their results are included in the overall results. Administrators were no longer able to hide problems. Now the problems get addressed and fixed.

Perhaps you are correct, i'm not a teacher and I only know what my wife tells me. But I also know that sometimes changes like this come in stages and if you listen to @ssholes like John F-ing Kerry the South is not important to the Yankee lawmakers therefore the South always comes last, so it also a possibility that the changes just haven't taken effect here yet.