Only a third of states have any measure of career readiness in their high
school rating system, and the quality of those measures varies widely.
In 80 of the 152 local authority areas, new places were only created
in schools rated as good or outstanding, but some areas did not fare as well.
The proportion of secondary
schools rated as good or outstanding has risen by two per cent, with primary schools rising by one per cent.
Another 45 percent
of schools rated B in 2013 - 2014 experienced year - to - year declines in math proficiency for Latino kids in their care.
The report also recommends that all states make at least some of these measures «count» in their
high school rating systems.
Double inspections involve two senior inspectors visiting the same school as part of more frequent, but light - touch inspections
for schools rated good.
It's great news that there are 1.8 million more children in
schools rated good or outstanding than there were in 2010 and the attainment gap between disadvantaged children and their peers is narrowing.
The school, which serves students from kindergarten through eighth grade, has never scored above an F in the state's annual
public school ratings.
He thinks a comparison of graduation rates should only include
charter schools rated under standard accountability measures.
The new law requires states to look beyond test scores to
design school ratings with the whole student in mind.
The percentage of
primary schools rated good or outstanding rose from 85 per cent in 2015, to 90 per cent this year.
While not significantly different from the past few years, it's advanced from 9 % in 2007, a six - point gain in
local school ratings in the past decade.
In an online database, the newspaper released the ratings for 6,000 elementary school teachers and plans to release
middle school ratings in coming weeks.
It demonstrates that aid is not allocated according to out of
school rates so as to meet the cost of achieving universal education in each country concerned.
Secondly, each school will have increasingly ambitious targets for each measure that, if met, would allow the school to move its overall
school rating up one performance level.
This powerful algorithm takes into account dozens of factors including
average school ratings, median home values, and percentage of owner - occupied homes.
She also said the new
healthy schools ratings must not be used as «yet another inspection criteria with which to beat schools».
The logic of this exercise is straightforward: If students in higher -
performing schools rate themselves more critically, then average self - ratings in those schools will be artificially low.
The state then uses those ratings to
target schools rated as low - performing or failing for assistance or sanctions.
Never before have
school ratings fallen to such low levels since the question was first asked back in 1981.
Since then, the proportion of
private schools rated «good» or «outstanding» has fallen from 75 per cent to 68 per cent.
As data are available and quality is verified, states should include — and assign significant weight to — all of the recommended measures in
school ratings calculations.
I'd assumed I'd get a choice of five local schools, including three
grammar schools rated as outstanding.
Many advocates consider online databases with easily
accessible school rating numbers to be part of a «legal gray area,» one with very little oversight.
There are also significant changes
for schools rated «good», which will now wait up to four years rather than three for a a one - day «short» inspection.
• More than half of the charter kids studied live in poverty — higher than the traditional
public school rate.
When a potential buyer is looking at a particular property on one of these sites, a link to a
local school rating is prominently featured.
In future years, under changes in the inspection process, outstanding schools will no longer receive routine inspections - and more attention will be focused on
schools rated as satisfactory and inadequate.
The change is expected to lead to a two - percentage - point decrease in the overall proportion
of schools rated «good» or «outstanding».
The spokesperson also repeated the government's regular assertion that «there are now 1.9 million more pupils in
schools rated good or outstanding than in 2010».
A free
school rated inadequate by Ofsted after concerns were raised about its teaching of «British values» has been told it is making «reasonable progress» towards removal of special measures.
In another good study, the RAND Corp. found that charter high school graduation rates and college attendance rates were better than regular district
school rates by 15 percentage points and eight percentage points respectively.
Three
free schools rated inadequate have closed, including Durham Free School (DFS), which shut at Easter.