Repair Credit Report Help

Is it possible to remove credit inquiries from my credit report? Over the course of about three months I went on a desperate auto loan shopping spree. I was trying incredibly hard to get approved under my own name with only a year worth of credit history because I have no willing/able co-signer. I've recieved about 20 inquiries and my credit score dropped over 50 points from the original 730 I had, bringing me from excellent credit to between fair and poor. Now I know that people usually say that you should stay away from "credit repair" agencies. However, I feel cheated to have these inquires draining on my credit report for the next two years when I've been responsible with my credit cards as I don't have a single late payment and I usually pay off half my debt or more every 2 weeks. Please advise.

what are prospective employers looking at on my credit report? I also need to know what comes up on a basic background check and an FBI background check. I've been applying to jobs and going to interviews which I seem to ace, then I don't get the job. I understand I lack a college education but I am attending school. I'm at a loss. I'm 28, have bad credit, and I'm trying to get my life on track but how am I expected to make it when no one will give me a chance. It's hard to repair credit and pay daily expenses when I can't get a better job.I'm on a strict budget, I'm making sacrifices. Are there any programs for single peolple, with no children, no criminal backgrounds and a somewhat unstable work history? How can a person who partied a little to hard in her early twenties get herself on her feet? Can some one please offer some suggestions?

Credit Repair Attorneys? "Credit Repair Attorneys" do they exist and how can i find one. I'm sick and tired of dealing with my credit report on my own. Recently I disputed some items and because Im in Texas my Equifax report is handled through something called CSS which just made things even more confusing, and then to top it off Trans Union did remove some of the items disputed but it turns out that they wiped my credit history completely even the good things. This is a pain in the **s and Im just fed up with it. Has anyone had any luck with an attorney?

Credit Repair? How long does a negative credit history stay on your credit report? I live in New York. Also, when collection agencies report to the credit bureaus every month, does that prolong the length of time that delinquency stays on your report? For example, an account has a "last reported" date of 03/2008 but the last payment was made in 2002, does the 2008 date prolong that negative report to be deleted from the credit report?

anyone know if companies that claim to improve your credit by adding credit lines to your credit work??? anyone heard of these companies that place one or more accounts on your credit report that have like 10 years of positive credit history or more and have platinum credit lines and they say by doing this it will improve your credit score over 200 points in days and is a alternative to costly credit repair that they say takes forever. Has anyone ever done this and it worked and if it does do you know any companies that are inexpensive?

Best way to repair bad credit? Short of the obvious,is anyone fimiluar with working with a specific "bad credit" repair company. I have been told they can pretty much wipe your credit clean and find that very hard to believe. I have tax leins and a discharged bankruptcy on my report and was told they can wipe that out.Very doubtful i believe, and dont want to just start throwing money out to these people with no results. Can anyone reccommend the best and safest solution in repairing my history and what actually can be removed?

Best way to repair credit? I established a credit history starting 7 years ago, and for the most part, it was always in good standing. However, I would say that I have one blemish, and it happens to be a big one, a credit card charge off, yikes. Not sure how I let this happen, but it did happen. I am going to pay this in full ASAP, and not settle. What are the chances that the company would erase it from my credit report, I know they have the power, but are stating otherwise. I just pulled my credit score, and on an Experian scale 330-830, I scored 530, which is awful, I know. What is a realistic time frame to bring it up to 700? 1,2 years. In the next few months, I am going to pay the charge off in full, and pay off all my other credit cards. Thanks for your help. The good thing is that I am not looking to buy a car, or house anytime soon. How much did the charge off hurt? I swear, last summer, my score was over 725.

How to repair credit in my case? Currently my credit score is very low as i did not make any payments since1999 and so on because of which 3 of my Credit Card companies charge off, reported loss or Cancel/Closed the accounts, and they in turn sold them to Collection companies who are reporting them every year to the credit bureau, by which my account looks so bad most recently they reported in December 2005, I know it's my mistake and i want to repair it, Some one told me that even if i repay the whole thing still it does not help me as the history of past 5to6 years still remains the same in you history is their any other way which helps me in repairing my credit, Please advice me a good solution.

Can I get a credit if I owe about $3000 to the bank? Hello! I'm really worried about my bank account and credit history. I owe about $3000 the Chase bank, and actually, they suspected me in fraud, but mostly, that was not my fault, I was swindled, just used me to get the money from the bank into their pockets! I was very stupid that I'd done that. Well, now I need lots of money fpr cosmetic treatment which is very complicated and what's more important, costs me a fortune! I don't even know how I can afford it. I tried to get a credit, but was denied. I checked out my credit report, there was stated my debt to the Chase bank, and no other history records. I don't know what to do, but I do need to repair my credit history, apart from that, I need money for the college to study. If I owe the money, will I be able to open accounts in other banks apart from the Chase? Can I be eligible for some credit cards? Please, help me with your clues! Thanks.

How does the credit score point system actually work? I want to know how do they determine the credit score point system. I know what is credit and how it works. But I want to know the numbers part like if someone runs your credit report it takes off 2points from your score, another is what if your late on your payment how much does it take off then and if I have a loan for a certain amount does that mean I get a big score or a low score? I have some old accounts (5yrs old) that need to be paid off but if I do pay them off will it really make a difference on my score? Next thing you know I pay them off and then my score only goes up by 4 or 5 points or will I even get a point. What would be the purpose then? At the same time if creditors do look at my report yes it would show paid off but the history would still show that I was delinquent for 5yrs. Whose gonna want to give me a loan any ways? Basically what is the point system and how is it calculated? Let me know so I can start to repair my credit. Much thanks and I appreciate it!!!

Disputing items on a credit report? I've searched around a lot for disputing items on my credit report. I've found a lot on how to dispute items via validation letters, but can these apply if they have already made it to my credit report? Also, is it true that companies have 30 days to "validate" such items or they are dropped from my report altogether? Anyone know of any sites that are very thorough and can help me out? I have a lot of questions about credit: scores, payments, and whatnot. Can anyone help? I'm trying to repair a history of being young and irresponsible.

Does it make a difference what I do with my credit card? I have a troubled credit card with a history of late fees and overlimit fees and I'm currently repairing it. What would look better on my credit report? To keep my existing credit card after I pay it all off and continue to keep the card and maintain a healthy card. Or should I pay it all off and cancel it and open a new credit card and maintain a healthy card starting fresh. Does any decision make a difference?

How can we quickly repair/raise his credit? My fiancee has a credit score of around 560-580. He has 2-3 neg. things on his credit (we saw 3 on the report but our realtor says theres 2) a gym membership for 1000, cell bill for 200, medical bill for 400. The most recent of those things is from 2 years ago. He has got an up-to-date car payment working FOR him on his credit history or whatever, hes been ontime with payments for at least 2.5 yrs. We want to move in may but his credit is too poor to get in somewhere with the way it is now- so how can we fix it? If we pay everything off how much will it up his credit/how fast? Thanks!

Should i work with a debt consolidation/repair company if my credit score is 518? My credit score is 518 so i dont qualify for any loans at any banks, not even P2P lending like prosper.com. I have been reading books about debt management and i am considering going to one of these companies. What is holding me back is that i know it'll show on my credit report and by doing so i'll practically be filing for bankruptcy. i have a goal to zero down my debt ($6,000) in 2008. after i do so i want to begin saving money and start looking for a house to buy, which i know is a hard and long process. I have a lot of black spots on my credit report but i think going to a debt program will make an even darker mark on my history. is it worth it for me to consolidate my debt? will my credit score ever grow to the 700 range i wish for? how hard is it to get a house after going to a debt program?

How long after repairing bad credit could you be eligible for a new loan for school/training? I have atrocious credit. 2 defaults, various revolving accounts, and numerous collections that have made their way onto the report. I also don't have a co-sign. For the better part of the last 3 years I had recurring, misdiagnosed conditions that prevented me from working steady. I want to fly helicopters, but the cost of school is so that it would be faster to pay off debt and get a loan to complete training (leg > commercial pilot), than it would be to save money and pay out of pocket. It's also maybe the right thing to do. I know items stay on the report for ~7 years, but, even with bad history, if you don't actually owe anyone anymore I would have a better chance I would assume. Even if it's not helicopters, I need to finish school. I have 70 hours and lack 8hours for an associates in aviation science (air traffic control), but I haven't been able to get a job in the field. So instead of "finishing" school I should say I need to go back and get some other type of training. one or two classes? where did you study? At Thomas edison state 8 hours is 8 classes, roughly $1100 just to register. I did know about the fafsa already, I couldn't submit it because of tax information and vet status problems. Working to fix it.

my fiancee has poor credit and he has a Aspen Mastercard thats a secured credit card, however i dont think? that they report to the credit bureaus. theyve raised his limit due to his good payment history but how do we know if they are reporting this to the credit bureaus? are there any secured credit cards that have a good reputation for credit repair?

I was the victim of Identity Theft...? Back in 2003. Despite detailed records, receipts, complaints to the Department of Justice, police, et cetera. No one helped me or even offered me any advice on how to proceed. As a result, my truck was reposessed in 2004, and despite trying to catch up, my credit still suffered. Fast forward to 2006. Prior to this incident, my credit report was beautiful. I had R1s all the way down the board. I had long, established credit histories, which were all current. Besides the repo, I've also had stuff hit collections. I've NEVER done a charge off because I opted to pay the full amount in hopes that this would look pleasing on my record. Is there really no help or no restitution to repair my credit? I've hit a brick wall each and every time. I'm STILL trying to play catch up to this day. It's frustrating because I want to buy a house, but I'm afraid my score isn't what lenders are looking for. Does my credit score BEFORE mean anything in this case, since I'm a victim of ID fraud? This is only directed to the know it with the comments about the repo. The repo was caused due to the fact that I was using my own money to pay down these debts brought on BY the ID theft. So don't bother posting here or elaborating any further cuz ur ignorance has really pis$ed me off.

Is this account re aged? My credit report show an account that with into chargeoff. I am trying to see what took so long or is the account re aged. My credit report shows....... date opened-- 07/1993 type- installment reported since -09/1999 Terms- 61 months date of status--04/2004 monthly payment-0 last reported--06/2006 responsibility-individual credit limit/Org. amount--12,666 High balance --NA recent balance--2,470 as of 06/2006 recent payment--0 I dont have proof but that truck was history before 1995, how is it still on my credit report? Any advice on what I should do? It never went into collections or anything. Please help, I am trying to repair my credit report. Thanks

How can they say charged off as bad debt!!? My now X-husband and I filed bankruptcy in 2000, mostly all medical, and a joint credit card. I had a credit card of my own I decided to keep, I always paid it on time, never went over the limit. I paid off my credit card completely, and then the cc company canceled me because of the bankruptcy. That was fine with me; I figured at least the CC would show good on my credit report. I had a gas card that would help me rebuild my credit. I did get another CC later down the road, which helped me a lot to repair my credit. It had been awhile, so I decided to check my credit report. I seen on my report there was a CC that showed a zero balance, but said, “Charged off as bad debt” I am mad. How can they say bad debt? I paid it off, and my payment history was always good with them. They are the one’s who canceled me, I want to dispute this, but what is the point, it shows it will be off my report this August. My credit is much better, but grrr, there is always something that comes back and bites you no matter how hard one tries. I guess this is more of a vent then a question.. Excuse Me, Steve P...I know all about bankruptcy, I was just not uinderstanding how a credit card I paid off, did not file bankruptcy on and had a good payment history with would say charged off as bad debt..

Why do bill collectors hate the idea of pay for deletes? Why is it that bill collectors vehemetely fight pay for deletes? I have an old bill that was 5 years old. It just popped up on my credit report after 5 years. That was because I was a teenager who didn't care about bills. Now I have or HAD credit scores in the mid 700s. I have or HAD almost 4 years of spotless payment history with 22 creditors. Don't you think I learned my lesson and I'm great about paying bills? I don't plan on having defaulted bills again, and my goal is 800 credit scores. The agency has refused my pay for delete. I even offered an extra 10% to cover administrative costs. They said it undermined the principles of credit reporting, to have accurate and true data. I said they were punishing me for old behaviors. Nothing in the FCRA says you HAVE to report a tradeline, it is voluntary. They also aren't a credit repair orginization because the agreement is to stop reporting it, not deleting it to boost my scores, even accusing me of manipulating the system. I told them paying it would not benefit my scores and I have 2 years on the reporting period. I will not accept a paid collection status and have subprime credit scores, due to my stupidity at a young age. I can understand if it was a newer debt, because that would be indicative of my current payment performance. The way I was back then is not the way I am now. I will resist this to the end of the reporting period. They are a junk debt buyer which paid pennies on the dollar for this debt, not like they will be hurting. Basically in a nutshell, I got in a big argument with them over the phone because they refused to delete. I refused to pay and the guy calls me a dead beat. I told him to pull my CR and note my 22 tradelines which are up to 4 yrs old with 100% positive history, low utilization on CC's. I told the guy to F-off and told him to go love his family because he sounded like a bad father. I told him I hope he treats his kids better than that. Why are PFD's so bad?

Please be kind with this. I have an ethical dilemma with regard to possibly putting my dog down. Help? I am going to try to explain this as best I can. You MUST put yourselves in our position to answer this. If you're just going to come up with the first value judgment that pops into your head without trying to realize that the decision is being made in the context of our lives, which may have no similarity to yours, then you're just going to be harmful to another human being for no reason. We love our dog. He is a sweet boy and he's been a great member of our family. But he's 11.5 years old and has been going very slowly down hill for about the last 3 years. He has already popped the tendons in both of his back legs (We didn't treat it because we only knew he got hurt, we didn't know what it was. We gave him something for pain and he started walking better in a few days.). He has strange non-cancerous growths on various parts of his body, one of which is on the rim of his lower eyelid. It has to be insanely annoying. Now he appears to have a UTI of some sort that isn't clearing up on it's own (I gave him AZO and an appropriate dosage of aspirin at infrequent intervals and that seemed to give him some relief, but didn't cure it). He releases a lot of air when he urinates which makes us think he has a perforation in this bladder or intestine. Sometime in the next few days, probably Monday, I'm going to take him to the vet. If all he needs is antibiotics, I'll get them for him. If he needs any procedure/testing that can be done with up to $300, I'll probably do it. If it's any more than that, we're going to have a really hard time doing that. If he has cancer anywhere, I feel like I have to put him down rather than wait, which is hard for me because he still has a lot of mostly good days. All our money, such as it is, and all our energy, is tied up in just trying to get by day to day and taking care of our two little girls, one of whom has autism. We live in an unlivable apartment and have to move. The problem is, we're a working-class family and we have had some rough things happen, and we have a huge debt to landlord (that shouldn't be there but there's nothing we can do about it) from two years ago. We live in NY where apartments are crazy expensive unless you live in the 'hood (which we do now and no longer want to), and even the 'hood is getting pricey. We also have a circumstance happening here that necessitates moving very quickly (long story and this is long enough), so we have to ask a landlord not to charge us 3 months of rent up front, to ignore the dog, and to ignore the credit rating and bad rental history, and hope we actually get a good landlord and not one who takes advantage of people like us and runs the place like a slum (that's what we have now, and no thanks!) and I'm sure you can see how highly unlikely it is to find someone who will ignore all those things. I wish this wasn't so, but I have to consider the practical value of taking the one thing I can change, the dog factor, out of the equation if he's really just going to decline anyway, even if it's a couple of years earlier than it would otherwise have to be. I love this dog. But I feel like it might be a choice between him and housing my children. If credit reports were not allowed to contain things that affect a person's ability to obtain necessity of life things, like, oh, economy cars, non-luxury apartments and jobs, I would probably just keep treating whatever goes wrong with him until he just could no longer be repaired, but they do. I feel like I'm being backed into this. His quality of life is unlikely to improve. We just don't have time and money to improve it. I suppose I want to know if I'm thinking wrongly or rightly about this, but please, be a human being about this. Don't just say nasty things because you enjoy screwing with people. Nothing about this is easy or taken lightly. Thanks for reading all of this if you actually did. It had to be that long if people were going to understand the situation. RICHARD AND I CARE 4 U: Thank you both for your well-considered and kind responses. It means a lot to me. WENK, what's with slumlords is that they're greedy as hell, even compared to other landlords, and that takes a load of doing. They want to do nothing and collect unreasonable sums of your money and will do it until someone sends them to jail or they drop dead. Thank you for understanding and for your input. The thing is, we've had this boy for pretty near all his life. I found him when he was about six weeks old and he's going to be 12 in December. He's not healthy. I can't imagine his being adoptable however sweet and wonderful he is. I also think that on a certain level, to take him from his family and throw him in with someone else at this point in his life is almost more cruel than putting him down, especially given that his health really isn't great, and dogs you can always assume feel about 50% worse than they actually seem because they bear under it so well and don't complain until every single breath is painful.

Will they approve me based on this...? In 2006, I was offered an out of state job. I submitted my 30 day notice advising I'd be vacating. A week after submitting the notice, I was advised that the job had been canceled. I went back to see if I could keep my apt and was told that they would try to place the new tenants elsewhere since they had already leased my apt. I was told not to worry and if I dont hear anything I should know everything worked out. I assumed all was well but about 3 weeks later, I received a message requesting my keys! They thought I had moved out and wanted my keys. The new tenants were moving in on Saturday and this was a Thursday?? No one had come to clean or do repairs or anything. My apt was being very lived in by me!! I didn't understand or believe what was going on but was told I needed to leave or be charged for staying longer. The manager wrote a letter explaining this and I still have it to this day. Unbelievably, I got my things out of my 2bd/2ba apt in 24 hrs. The district manager called and apologized and offered placing me in another complex but it was even more expensive than what I had been paying. The onsite manager wasnt apologetic at all. Looking back, I should have verified things and not trust her words since she had my written notice and that holds up more than a verbal promise. I had so much resentment and didn't want to pay it. I'm ready to get another place now since I've been with family since then. I've only lived in two complexes and have had FLAWLESS payment history at both properties besides this incident. My credit isn't that great right now and I'm worried this will keep me from being approved. I received a letter from the collection agency settling for half today and even if i pay it (and I will), it won't be deleted from my credit report. I'll be looking for my place this month. .What do you think my chances of being approved based on this information? I'm not leaving out anything "Ms. Top Contributor". They don't have a judgment against me, just the fee for breaking the lease which included one months rent and other fees that went on my credit report. There was nothing legal involved. Sounds like you don't know enough about this subject, go contribute elsewhere.

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What do you think of the following article? EXTRA HELP When Special Education Goes Too Easy on Students Parents Say Schools Game System, Let Kids Graduate Without Skills By JOHN HECHINGER and DANIEL GOLDEN August 21, 2007; Page A1 GREENPORT, N.Y. -- On June 25, 2006, Michael Bredemeyer threw his tasseled cap in the air and cheered after getting his high school diploma. Two days later, his parents mailed the diploma back. [More Data on Mainstreaming] * * * Plus, read more about the challenges of integrating special-needs students, at WSJ.com/Mainstreaming. Michael, now 19 years old, has learning disabilities and finished high school at a seventh-grade reading level, despite scoring above average on IQ tests. The Bredemeyers say he passed some classes because teachers inflated his grades and accepted poor work. By awarding him a meaningless diploma, they say, school officials avoided paying for ongoing instruction. "I felt proud because he had worked so hard," says Michael's mother, Beverly, her voice breaking. "You don't want to take that away from him. But you knew it wasn't real. What's he going to do in the future? Will he be able to go to college and get a job?" The Bredemeyers represent a new voice in special education: parents disappointed not because their children are failing, but because they're passing without learning. These families complain that schools give their children an easy academic ride through regular-education classes, undermining a new era of higher expectations for the 14% of U.S. students who are in special education. Years ago, schools assumed that students with disabilities would lag behind their non-disabled peers. They often were taught in separate buildings and left out of standardized testing. But a combination of two federal laws, adopted a quarter-century apart, have made it national policy to hold almost all children with disabilities to the same academic standards as other students. The 1975 statute now known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act promoted putting special-education students in mainstream classrooms. The 2001 No Child Left Behind Act said schools would be punished if disabled children don't pass the same state tests as other students. It also requires states to set standards for high-school graduation rates and meet them for all students, including those with disabilities. By some measures, the extra attention is paying off. Test scores and classroom grades of disabled students are rising, and their high-school graduation rate increased to 54% in 2004 from 42% in 1996. But critics say some of the gains have come because schools have learned to game the system. For instance, federal rules allow states to make "reasonable accommodations" to help disabled students pass tests and graduate, such as allowing extra time on exams. Some schools, say critics, are giving students too much help, for instance by guiding students to the right answers on multiple-choice tests. MAKING THE GRADE • The Issue: Some parents of students with learning disabilities say their children are graduating too easily. • The Background: Federal laws raised school standards, but left loopholes. Increasingly, special-education students get special help to pass tests. • The Problem: If schools game the system, those students move on without the skills they need. From 2000 to 2005, special-education fourth graders showed more improvement in reading and math than the general population on an important benchmark test, the National Assessment of Educational Progress. But accommodations also increased. In 2005, 70% of fourth-grade special education students received some sort of accommodation while taking the math portion, up from 44% five years earlier. In reading, 63% used accommodations in 2005, up from 29% in 2000. On tests used to measure compliance with No Child Left Behind, more states are permitting students with disabilities to use calculators on arithmetic tests or have reading-comprehension tests be read aloud. Massachusetts education commissioner David Driscoll warned school administrators in February that an alarming number of special education students -- a quarter or half in some cases -- were receiving such accommodations on state exams. With unclear guidelines, "People start driving trucks through loopholes," he said in an interview. Some school districts have an informal policy against failing students with disabilities even if they miss many classes or aren't learning. "I can go into any school we represent and have somebody tell me we have to pass special education students" to avoid being blamed for not providing the right services if students fail, says Janet Horton, a Texas special-education attorney. Federal law says special-education students should receive a "free appropriate public education," but it doesn't prohibit failing them. Mardys Leeper and Carol Merrill, former teachers at West Philadelphia High School in Pennsylvania, say a special-education administrator there ordered them to pass special-education students. Ms. Leeper says she made concessions for students with disabilities, such as letting them write shorter essays or copy paragraphs she wrote onto a word processor rather than composing their own. But when those students didn't make an effort, or skipped class, both teachers say they sometimes sought to fail them -- only to have the administrator insist on passing grades. The reason they were given: Students had met the goals of their federally mandated individual education plans, IEPs, spelling out goals and services for each special-education student. "Students who weren't even participating, even trying, we couldn't fail them," says Ms. Merrill, an English teacher who retired this year. Even if they couldn't read, "I had to give them a 'D.'" The administrator couldn't be reached for comment. Brenda Taylor, head of special education for the Philadelphia school district, called the matter a "breakdown in communication." The district has no written policy against failing special-education students, she says. But rather than being "punitive" if a student performs poorly or cuts class, she says, the district prefers to revise a student's IEP. "We're not in the business of failing students," Ms. Taylor says. Only 19 states require all students to earn the same kind of diploma, according to a recent University of Minnesota survey. Some of those states let special-education students amass fewer course credits to earn the degree, the survey found. Other states give substitute certificates, in some cases called IEP diplomas, to special-education students who don't qualify for standard diplomas. Many special-education parents are happy to see their children advance through school and graduate. Reggie Felton, director of federal policy for the National School Boards Association, says special-education students learn more in regular classes even if they're given a break on assignments or grading. The federal government recently decided to triple the percentage of students allowed to take easier tests, to 3% from 1%. Some legislators have proposed exempting more students. But the rebellion against too-easy passing is growing, says Pam Wright, who with her husband has co-authored books on special education issues and operates a Virginia-based information clearinghouse for special-education parents. She estimates she now receives more than 1,000 email messages a year from parents lamenting that their children with disabilities take mainstream courses but aren't being taught as much as their classmates. Dozens of parents have contended in recent administrative appeals that their children did not deserve the diplomas they received, she says. The family of Alba Somoza, who has cerebral palsy and speaks only with the help of a computer, filed one such case. Alba drew national attention in the 1990s when her family successfully pushed to include the then-third grader in a regular classroom. Then-President Bill Clinton backed her cause, and Alba, now 23, graduated with honors from a New York City high school in 2002. Last year, Alba and her family filed an administrative case claiming her education was a sham. A school report prepared weeks before she graduated showed she had language and math skills at an elementary school level, court records show. "You cannot shunt children through -- you cannot scam them through the system," says Alba's mother, Mary. [Michael Bredemeyer] Since shortly after she graduated, New York has been paying for a special program for Alba that costs $400,000 a year -- including a full-time teacher, an aide, transportation and extensive technology. The city says it is doing so out of compassion, not legal obligation. The family is seeking to continue the public funding another year to help Alba receive enough education to work as a museum docent. The Somozas lost the administrative case, but a judge in U.S. District Court in Manhattan ruled in the family's favor earlier this year and ordered another hearing. Rather than develop a program that would help Alba reach her academic goals, teachers lowered the curriculum's "level of difficulty" and removed "large and meaningful portions of its substantive content," the judge said. One teacher testified that he did most of the work on Alba's final project in 2002. New York officials say the school properly adapted the curriculum for a severely disabled student. In northern California, Jennifer McGowan, an 18-year-old who is deaf in one ear and suffers from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and learning disabilities, was supposed to graduate from Vacaville Unified School District in June. She didn't get her diploma -- because her family won a court injunction to stop it. In an interview, Jennifer said she often received A or B grades for poorly completed work or, at times, when she didn't do assignments at all or show up for class. Achievement tests she took in January 2005 showed that she had the math and reading skills of an elementary-school student, according to her administrative complaint. The school district denies her grades were inflated and said she showed her proficiency by passing a high-school exit exam. John Aycock, Vacaville's superintendent, said teachers did "a great job working with Jennifer." Jennifer says she failed the exit exam several times despite intensive preparation. "They just wanted to pass me and let me fly by," she says. The school system says it's not unusual to make several attempts to pass. At the Mercer Island school district in Washington state, the family of a girl with severe learning disabilities complains that, instead of the intense instruction she needed to master reading and math in eighth and ninth grades, teachers showered her with accommodations: a peer note-taker, a peer to read materials to her, oral exams, reduced assignments and a calculator on math tests. At an administrative hearing, the family -- whose names are not disclosed in the court papers -- sought to force the school system to pay for her private schooling. Noting her strong A and B grades, the district successfully argued that accommodations were helping her learn. In U.S. District Court in Seattle, a judge hearing an appeal of the case disagreed last year, saying the system improperly relied on accommodations rather than instruction, and has returned the case to a hearing officer to determine financial relief for the family. Boxes of school correspondence and Michael Bredemeyer's old tests and assignments line the hallways of his family's weather-beaten saltbox house in Orient, N.Y., on Long Island's North Fork. Michael's parents are demanding public funding for more services until age 21, to which students are entitled unless they graduate, so he can improve his academic skills for college. John Bredemeyer, a county public-health inspector, and his wife, Beverly, had high hopes for Michael, who has a strong work ethic and a knack for repairing machines. But once he entered public middle school in nearby Greenport, his parents worried that teachers were letting him skate through classes and tests. Michael, who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and learning disabilities including dyslexia, says in some classes he "definitely earned" a passing grade, but others were "borderline." He took regular classes except for one period a day. "A little more one-on-one" instruction would have helped, he says. On state achievement exams, Michael's IEP permitted him extra time, simplified instructions and guidance from a teacher to slow him down if he rushed through answers. But when he completed the eighth-grade math test, his special-education teacher also took him to the resource room and directed him to redo problems he had answered incorrectly. According to a memo from Greenport Superintendent Charles Kozora, the teacher "exceeded the intent" of Michael's accommodations, boosting his score. The state investigated and invalidated Michael's test. [Revolt] Mr. Kozora said the school system had only two cases of testing irregularities in six years, few conflicts with parents over special education and "many successes" among students with disabilities. The district says achievement, and not cost, dictates its decisions on graduating students. When Michael was a junior at Greenport High, his chemistry teacher passed him with the minimum grade of 65, even though he says he spent much of the class doodling and playing solitaire on his laptop. Checking his assignments and tests, his parents couldn't understand how he could be passing. In a letter, the school principal acknowledged that the final grade was a "miscalculation" and should have been 56.6, or an F. The school offered to let him make up his lost credits by volunteering in the town library. When his parents balked, he was instead placed in courses in sociology and psychology. On one psychology pop quiz, five of Michael's seven answers were marked wrong, but a failing grade was crossed out on the paper and a passing score of 65 was substituted. The school district declined comment. For a senior English assignment, he received an A for one untitled paragraph. "I believe competition today has changed dramatically," he wrote. "Back in the day, sports was some of the only sports that had competition. Today, everyone wants to compete and only be successful. School work, school sports, major league sports, all involve high amounts of success and competition. Competition today has become very extreme." His English teacher, Michael Connolly, said he didn't remember the assignment and had no comment on the grade. On standardized tests, Michael had mixed results: On the SATs, which have a 200 to 800 scale, Michael received 330 and then 370 in two tries on the reading test, in the bottom 10% of all students nationally. On math, he scored 460 both times. He failed two state exams and passed five others. His school grades put him in the bottom one-third of his class. A month before graduation, the Bredemeyers debated whether he should accept the degree. "I wanted to have it," Michael says. "Get it and forget it." On graduation day, a school band played "Pomp and Circumstance." Michael's parents, his sister, his grandmother, aunts and uncles watched as he walked up to the podium and a school official handed him a purple diploma case with his name etched in gold letters. Michael says he knew his parents might not let him keep it. "I had a feeling they'd do something like that," he said, shrugging. "I'll eventually get it back, one of these days, months, years." This summer, Michael has been mowing lawns and picking up trash at a state park for $9 an hour. This fall, he plans to enter his second year at Suffolk County Community College, which does not require a high-school diploma. Last semester at Suffolk, he received a D-plus in freshman composition, D's in statistics and Western Civilization and an F in the history of rock 'n' roll. Write to John Hechinger at john.hechinger@wsj.com and Daniel Golden at dan.golden@wsj.com RELATED ARTICLES AND BLOGS Related Content may require a subscription | Subscribe Now -- Get 2 Weeks FREE Related Articles from the Online Journal • The Kids Are All Right • School Choice and Racial Balance • Back to Failing Schools • Tort-a-licious: The Trials of Law School Blog Posts About This Topic • SaukValley.com - Serving Dixon, Sterling & Rock Falls saukvalley.com • August 14, 2007 edspresso.com More related content Powered by Sphere

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