Leon County Superintendent, Others Call for Investigation of FCAT Grade Changes
The Tallahassee Democrat‘s Travis Pillow reports:
Leon County’s schools superintendent is demanding the state provide the districts with details of state testing data at the center of this month’s miscalculation of school grades.
Superintendent Jackie Pons on Thursday sent state Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson a letter requesting the data on the learning gains made by students who had been struggling on the state’s reading exam.
One part of the new grading formula that took effect this year gave extra weight to gains made by students who scored a 1 or 2 on the previous year’s Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test reading exams. The state revised grades for more than 200 schools statewide after finding out