Why State Lawmakers Threw Out The Brand-New A-F School Rating System
They took aim at the method state officials chose to measure student growth — a method critics charge is too complicated.
They took aim at the method state officials chose to measure student growth — a method critics charge is too complicated.
Indiana and the 25 other states granted waivers from certain requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind law will still have to send student data to Washington, D.C., writes Sarah D. Sparks for Education Week: That means waivers states, who have created brand new accountability systems, don’t have to do less reporting. They actually [...]
The feds may have given Indiana a pass from the widely-criticized No Child Left Behind law less than a month ago, but observers of diverse ideological stripes doubt Indiana’s new system will be any better.
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