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Statewide, handicapped students, whose rate of success continues to be lower than that of students in regular programs, also proved more successful in readhing this year than last and less successful in mathematics. The percentage passing both tests was 36.9, 2.3 percent below the 1981 figure.
State Department of Education personnel emphasize that competency tests, initiated at the direction of the General Assembly, are designed to measure practical reading and mathmatics skills, such as the ability to complete forms and applications and to keep a'check book. They are not measures of general pcadeniic. ,proficiency Achieved in^, completing the fequirecb uqits or credit
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: Since Watery, 1981,
86.7%