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  • English Advocate Calls Demands for Bilingual Testing 'Ridiculous'

    03/30/2004 8:19:10 AM PST · by walford · 26 replies · 532+ views
    Web Today ^ | March 30, 2004 | Web Today
    A conservative organization is expressing outrage over a lawsuit that seeks to force the State of Massachusetts to administer its high school equivalency examination in Spanish for students more proficient in that language than in English. The Multicultural Education, Training, and Advocacy Coalition and two lawyers' groups have filed suit, claiming the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment (MCAS) test is unfair to Spanish-speaking students. The group claims the exam given to evaluate students in academic subjects such as math and history is unfair and should be offered to them in Spanish. But K.C. McAlpin of the Washington, DC-based group Pro-English believes the...