Sentences with phrase «calculated school letter grades»

And the Department of Education hasn't calculated school letter grades for last year.

Of course, that was before ex-Indiana schools chief Tony Bennett stepped down as Florida Education Commissioner after the Associated Press released emails showing his staff had tinkered with the metrics used to calculate school letter grades here in Indiana.

A panel that's spent six weeks rewriting the rules used to calculate school letter grades adopted a final report Monday.

Rockville Elementary School Principal Jeff Eslinger explains to parents how the state calculates school letter grades.

State Superintendent Glenda Ritz says moving forward, she'd like to see the state's Legislative Services Agency «check» the Department of Education's work calculating school letter grades.

Not exact matches

A StateImpact analysis of Indiana school letter grades shows that the grades of 165 schools went up last year when Tony Bennett, the state schools chief at the time, ordered a change in how the grades are calculated.

Of course, Indiana is in the process of rewriting the formula used to calculate A-F school letter grades so students are compared to their past performance, not to their peers.

But she's promised to make all testing data available as soon as possible so schools can begin calculating already delayed school letter grades.

When the Indiana Department of Education rolled out letter grades last week, Ritz attacked the growth model used to calculate each school's rating.

Rather than using only standardized test scores to calculate a school's letter grade, the new letter grade ratings will also consider how scores for subgroups of students scores change over time, as well as graduation rates and Advanced Placement test scores.

They saw a presentation of a new way to calculate state - issued letter grades for schools.

Nine Louisiana business and education groups — including Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, the Urban League of Greater New Orleans and the Southern Poverty Law Center — expressed their concern with the way public school letter grades are calculated in Superintendent White's draft ESSA...

Lawmakers had expressed concerns with the system — which assigns each school a letter grade based on their students» performance on statewide tests — well before an Associated Press story raised fundamental questions about how former schools chief Tony Bennett's staff calculated of the 2012 grades.

A GPA, or grade point average, is calculated by assigning a numerical value to the letter grade you receive from each high school or college course.