Using a question and answer format, this document is informal policy guidance from the Department of Education. Yet, they are concerned about how to do this and maintain safety in their schools at the same time. The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in the U. S. Department of Education has sponsored research and technical assistance to help schools learn what works to create safe, effective learning environments for all children.
Successful schools provide behavior support to all students.
They also report that students spend more time actively engaged in academics and achieve more. Schools almost double their success rate when they use behavior interventions that are based on prior functional assessments. These test scores will not longer be flagged or identified as tests taken under non-standard conditions. Affected tests include - the Graduate Record Examinations, the Graduate Management Admission Test, the Test of English as a Foreign Language, Praxis, and many other standardized admission tests that it administers. The new policy does not cover the SAT since the College Board, not ETS, owns this test.