Disabled Students Required to Take Assessment Tests

May 5, 2003 Disabled Students Required to Take Assessment Tests Despite that fact that the federal government has not created a standardized test for the disabled, when President Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 on January 8, 2002, the act made it a law that schools are not permitted to exempt students from taking assessment tests based on disabilities – even for children who are severely disabled. It is each state’s responsibility to create their own standards for assessing what disabled students should learn for each grade. By 2005, all states are required to have developed . . .