Are students with disabilities included in their states adequate yearly progress (AYP) requirements?
Yes. As stated in NCLB, AYP applies the same high standards of academic achievement to all public elementary and secondary school students in the state. The law also requires selected subgroups, one of which is students with disabilities, to be considered separately under certain conditions in determining whether a school has met AYP targets. An important part of the NCLB regulations, known as “the one percent rule” that applies to students with significant disabilities, was added to the NCLB regulations in December 2003. The Department of Education has issued a summary of that rule that is available at http://www.usu.edu/mprrc/workgroups/ci/011404Material1.pdf In addition, another regulation, known as the “two percent rule” was added to NCLB in 2007 – see http://www.ed.gov/policy/speced/guid/modachieve-summary.html (Edit) –> How must students with disabilities be included in NCLB accountability reports? Students with disabilities is one of the subgroups for which NCLB requires disagg
