Loophole in "No Child Left Behind"act

COLUMBUS, Ohio — LaTonya Robinson knows her son did well on tests at his elementary school. What she didn’t know was the limits the school put on reporting his results.

Federal law allows Clinton Elementary School to exclude the test scores of black children as a separate racial group including those of her son, James – when measuring how well those children did on reading and math.

In Ohio, almost 40,000 students, or about 4 percent of all test scores, aren’t counted under the law’s racial categories, an Associated Press computer analysis found. Almost all were minority students, and most were black or Hispanic.

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