No compromise is necessary. Legislators should find the guts to hold the line, and back up their original vote to require testing after one year. School officials have been granted enough extensions, and they have made enough excuses. If they really want to help immigrant kids, they can start by putting aside their benign racism and cultural prejudices and believe in the ability of those students. And they can accept the simple truth that, since the invention of the blackboard, no teacher ever got more out of a student by expecting less from him.
Schools have nothing to fear from their immigrant students.