Florida’s School Grading System is the Emperor With No Clothes
My Facebook friend and teaching colleague Catherine Martinez tactfully helps me out with editing my blog on occasion. She’s taken up her own pen this morning in a letter to the editor of the Palm Beach Post:
Let me get this straight: same students, same tests, same scores, different grades (“Recalculation restores school district’s ‘A’ status”). The Palm Beach County School District went from a B to an A without any interventions, just because of a 0.1 percent error on calculating some student grades?
When will parents, teachers and administrators rise up with one voice and tell Gov. Scott, Jeb
