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R News: As It Happens, Where It Happens: "ALBANY, N.Y.-- Students with limited English could face a harder time taking state tests from now on.
State education officials said that any student with at least one year of U.S. schooling will have to take the regular English Language Arts exam. Until now, students with less than three years of U.S. schooling could take a different test for English as a second language.
The change affects about 90,000children in grades three through eight who speak limited English. The next test is in January.
New York has been under pressure from the federal government to improve its testing.
In June, the feds threatened the state with a loss more than a million dollars in aid per year if New York did not change its testing process within a year. "