Florida Education Board Could Suggest Changing School Ratings
FLORIDA DOE
The Florida Board of Education could recommend lawmakers revise the state school performance system at a meeting tomorrow.
School districts have complained the system sets higher standards for the state’s lowest-rated schools. For a low-rated school to pull itself off a watch list the district must improve more rapidly than other state districts.
The result is that a district on a state watch list could earn a failing grade, school officials have said, while the same performance might earn another district a ‘C’.
The recommendations trim the number of schools improvement categories to 4 from 6. Only schools earning an ‘F’ grade could be considered