Reply #7: It's even worse than that

[proud2BlibKansan]

If your SUBGROUPS do poorly, you lose FEDERAL funding.

Subgroups are:
minorities
special ed
ESL
low income

So if you are in a school that is predominantly white, middle class and English speaking with a small percentage of special ed kids, there is no consequence for doing poorly on annual tests. You lose no money.

If your school does not have at least 80% low income kids, you don't get any federal funding anyway, so again it doesn't make any difference how your kids score, since you have nothing to lose.

If, however, you are a school in an urban or rural area, with a large majority of low income kids, you have a lot to lose if even ONE of your subgroups doesn't make adequate yearly progress.

This law sucks so bad it is disgraceful.