Stage Three Collapse Has Arrived: Florida DOE Miscalculates Over 200 School Grades
In April of this year, two outgoing superintendents of schools in Florida predicted that the states school accountability system would fail. One of them, Bill Vogel from Seminole said it “would fall apart like a house of cards,” and that legislators were “making up the rules as they go along.” In what appears to be a Friday bad news document dump, the DOE admitted that serious mistakes had been made in grading state schools. From Leslie Postal in the Orlando Sentinel:
School grades in 40 of Florida’s 67 school districts, including some in Orange, Osceola, Lake and Volusia counties, were miscalculated and have been bumped upward, the Florida Department of Education announced late Friday.
The department provided little information about what led to the revised grades, saying only that