Sentences with phrase «school grading system labeled»

(Longtime education wonks may remember a similar situation in New York City from the early days of the Bloomberg / Klein era, when their brand - new school grading system labeled some of Gotham's most sought - after schools as failures.

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States have joined those two standardized testing groups to give exams on Common Core standards — West Virginia is set to give a Smarter Balanced version for the first time this spring, though the state will delay, for at least this school year and the next, labeling schools with its new A-F grading system, which is based in part on the test.

She'd like to dismantle the current A-F grading system, which she says has a detrimental effect on communities whose schools have been labeled as «failing.»

Too many students leave high school ill prepared for college and careers, even though traditional grading systems label many of them top performers.

An issue brief released today by the Public School Forum of North Carolina says the current A-F School Performance Grading system only serves to label schools based on the family income of the students served and does not provide support to help struggling schools...

There would still be low - performing schools under such a system, but the emphasis in such a system would shift to action to help struggling schools, rather than focusing so intently on letter grades and labels with little corresponding funding or support.

Likewise, states could propose the measures, component weights, and labels within their new accountability systems — some went with A — F school grades, while others kept a system of performance targets similar to NCLB, developed a point system for ranking schools, or created other approaches.

Like many educators, Eiler says the system has a key flaw: Under the new system, students can achieve very high scores on the ISTEP, but still be labeled «low growth,» potentially harming the school's letter grade.