{"id":15715,"date":"2012-12-21T10:27:24","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T15:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=15715"},"modified":"2012-12-21T10:27:26","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T15:27:26","slug":"more-florida-high-schools-earn-a-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/12\/21\/more-florida-high-schools-earn-a-grade\/","title":{"rendered":"More Florida High Schools Earn &#8216;A&#8217; Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15721\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/12\/21\/more-florida-high-schools-earn-a-grade\/12-21-lettera\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15721\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15721\" title=\"12-21 LetterA\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/12\/12-21-LetterA-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/12\/12-21-LetterA-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/12\/12-21-LetterA.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">designer.eb \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">More Florida high schools earned A grades this year.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nearly half of Florida high schools earned an &#8216;A&#8217; grade and fewer schools earned failing marks, <a href=\"http:\/\/schoolgrades.fldoe.org\/\">according to Florida high school report cards released Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The grades were aided by a number of changes approved by the State Board of Educations. The board lowered the passing grade on the state writing test, suspended the penalty for schools whose lowest-performing students did not improve their scores and only allowed school grades to drop by a maximum of one letter.<\/p>\n<p>This year 47 percent of high schools earned an &#8216;A,&#8217; up from 31 percent last year. &#8216;B&#8217; grades did the opposite &#8212; down to 31 percent from 47 percent last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The school board and I are extremely proud of our teachers, students, and school leaders who work hard to meet or exceed goals,&#8221; Orange County superintendent Barbara Jenkins said in a statement.\u00a0 &#8220;We&#8230;realize that our high school grades next year may look different as we incorporate end-of-course assessments for biology and geometry. We are diligently preparing for Common Core and fully implementing the standards that help ensure our students are ready to compete in a global economy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The number of schools earning an &#8216;F&#8217; grade declined to three from six. The number of &#8216;D&#8217; school declined to 14 from 25.<\/p>\n<p>The grades are still preliminary and schools have the option of appealing their grade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly half of Florida high schools earned an &#8216;A&#8217; grade and fewer schools earned failing marks, according to Florida high school report cards released Friday. The grades were aided by a number of changes approved by the State Board of Educations. The board lowered the passing grade on the state writing test, suspended the penalty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":15721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1035,1033,1106],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15715"}],"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=15715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15724,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15715\/revisions\/15724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}