Question

Parents of African American students filed a case against the state of California in 1979 because they believed the testing method used to identify students with learning disabilities________.

did not identify enough African American children in need of special education

disadvantaged their children by placing them in special education classes

resulted in less funding

was culturally unfair as the tests were normed and standardized using White children

Answer 1

Answer: Was culturally unfair as the tests were normed and standardized using white children.

Larry P. v. Riles is a court case against the state of California regarding the fair evaluations of children that require special education services.

The argument was that the use of IQ tests to identify students that needed to be placed in special education classrooms disproportionately affected African American students. The tests were designed to evaluate white students, and therefore students from other ethnicities were at a disadvantage.

The court ruled that the tests did indeed contain cultural biases that benefitted white students and represented a type of discrimination.