Florida Education Board Could Suggest Changing School Ratings | Scathing Purple Musings

Florida Education Board Could Suggest Changing School Ratings | Scathing Purple Musings:

Florida Education Board Could Suggest Changing School Ratings

by Bob Sikes

Writing for NPR’s State Impact, John O’Connor reports:

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