Final permission for new English language learners leeway.

Final permission for new English language learners leeway. While states have been allowed to exempt reading/language arts testscores for English Language English language,member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages). Spoken by about 470 million people throughout the world, English is the official language of about 45 nations. Learners in school on a case-by-case Adj. 1. case-by-case - separate and distinct from others of the same kind; "mark the individual pages"; "on a case-by-case basis"item-by-item, individual basissince 2004, the U.S. Department of Education has recently given everystate permission to leave out test scores of newly enrolled ELLs whenconsidering a school's adequate yearly progress Adequate Yearly Progress, or AYP, is a measurement defined by the United States federal No Child Left Behind Act that allows the U.S. Department of Education to determine how every public school and school district in the country is performing academically. . The policy applies to students who have been in a U.S. school forless than a year. But it still requires states to include thosestudents' math test scores and, beginning next year, science testscores, with accommodations as are necessary. However, states are notrequired to include the results when determining a school'sadequate yearly progress. The policy requires states that do exempt recently arrived ELLstudents from the reading/language arts assessment to publicly reportthe number of students exempted for that reason. And local educationagencies are still responsible for providing appropriate instruction toELL students.