{"id":21211,"date":"2014-01-19T21:53:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T02:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=21211"},"modified":"2014-01-19T21:54:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T02:54:52","slug":"why-miami-jackson-senior-high-school-wants-its-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2014\/01\/19\/why-miami-jackson-senior-high-school-wants-its-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Miami Jackson Senior High School Wants Its A"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21214\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 322px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Miami Jackson Senior High wants an A grade.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/01\/School-Grades.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-21214 alignright\" alt=\"Miami Jackson Senior High wants an A grade.\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/01\/School-Grades.jpg\" width=\"322\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Florida Department of Education \/ FLDOE.org<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miami Jackson Senior High wants an A grade.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Florida\u2019s A through F system for school grades has been fraught with controversy.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters say it\u2019s a way of holding schools and districts accountable. Critics worry that the formula to calculate the grades doesn\u2019t reflect how well schools really prepare children.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in Miami-Dade County, one school has been told it probably won\u2019t get the A it says it earned.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>StateImpact Florida\u2019s Sammy Mack spoke with the Miami Herald\u2019s David Smiley about why Miami Jackson Senior High doesn\u2019t want to accept a B:<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-21211-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/01\/Smiley_TW_1_web.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/01\/Smiley_TW_1_web.mp3\">https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/01\/Smiley_TW_1_web.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>You can find the full story in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/school\/\">Miami Herald <\/a>later this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida\u2019s A through F system for school grades has been fraught with controversy. Supporters say it\u2019s a way of holding schools and districts accountable. Critics worry that the formula to calculate the grades doesn\u2019t reflect how well schools really prepare children. Now, in Miami-Dade County, one school has been told it probably won\u2019t get the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[1106,356],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21211"}],"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\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21211"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21220,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21211\/revisions\/21220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}