{"id":10208,"date":"2012-07-13T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=10208"},"modified":"2012-07-13T13:22:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T17:22:00","slug":"most-florida-school-districts-drop-a-letter-grade-on-2012-state-report-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/07\/13\/most-florida-school-districts-drop-a-letter-grade-on-2012-state-report-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Florida School Districts Drop A Letter Grade On 2012 State Report Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8161\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/05\/31\/grades-are-in-for-floridas-lawmakers\/letter-a\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8161\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8161\" title=\"Letter A\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/05\/Letter-A-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/05\/Letter-A-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/05\/Letter-A-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/05\/Letter-A-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/05\/Letter-A-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/05\/Letter-A.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Quasimodo \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">16 of 30 districts lost their &#39;A&#39; grade this year.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>More than half of Florida schools districts dropped a letter grade this year, <a href=\"http:\/\/schoolgrades.fldoe.org\/\">according to state Department of Education data released today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In total, 39 of Florida&#8217;s 67 school districts earned a lower grade than last year.<\/p>\n<p>The drop was expected after state education officials <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/07\/11\/five-questions-about-floridas-2012-school-grades\/\">raised standards for state tests this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And no district raised their grade, unlike with school grades <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/07\/11\/facing-tougher-standards-florida-2012-school-grades-drop\/\">released earlier this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More than half of the state&#8217;s top-rated districts lost their &#8216;A&#8217; rating this year. An &#8216;A&#8217; grade is often a bragging right for school officials and a selling point for real estate agents and home buyers.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Among the state&#8217;s large, urban districts Orange and Miami-Dade school districts maintained their 2011 grade.<\/p>\n<p>At the other end of the spectrum, six additional districts joined those earning the lowest awarded grade of &#8216;D.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The state&#8217;s online academy, the Florida Virtual School, was graded for the first time and earned a &#8216;C.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than half of Florida schools districts dropped a letter grade this year, according to state Department of Education data released today. In total, 39 of Florida&#8217;s 67 school districts earned a lower grade than last year. The drop was expected after state education officials raised standards for state tests this year. And no district [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":8161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1035,1019,456],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}