{"id":21603,"date":"2014-03-11T07:54:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T11:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=21603"},"modified":"2014-03-11T07:54:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T11:54:32","slug":"follow-up-state-rejects-miami-jackson-high-schools-grade-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2014\/03\/11\/follow-up-state-rejects-miami-jackson-high-schools-grade-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow-Up: State Rejects Miami Jackson High School&#8217;s Grade Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21604\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Miami Jackson High School's grade will remain a B, after the Florida Department of Education rejected the school's challenge.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/03\/3-11-LetterB.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21604\" alt=\"Miami Jackson High School's grade will remain a B, after the Florida Department of Education rejected the school's challenge.\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/03\/3-11-LetterB-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/03\/3-11-LetterB-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/03\/3-11-LetterB-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/03\/3-11-LetterB.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">chrisinplymouth \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miami Jackson High School&#39;s grade will remain a B, after the Florida Department of Education rejected the school&#39;s challenge.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Miami Jackson Senior High School has lost its appeal to become an A-rated school after disputing test scores , <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2014\/03\/10\/3986166\/miami-jackson-highs-appeal-denied.html\">the <em>Miami Herald<\/em> reports.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Florida Department of Education said the scores from students learning English would not have changed the school&#8217;s grade:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The state\u2019s ruling was expected, even though Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said in January that the \u201cEnglish Language Learner\u201d students in question should not have counted toward the calculation of the school\u2019s 2012-13 letter grade because they had not been enrolled in a U.S. school for a full year prior to the start of testing, as state law requires.<\/p>\n<p>School and district testing officials argued that the disputed test scores caused Miami Jackson, which earned enough points to receive an \u201cA,\u201d to miss out on a requirement that at least a quarter of students test at proficient reading levels in order to avoid a one-grade drop.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Losing the \u201cA\u201d was significant both for the pride of a school seeking its third straight \u201cA\u201d after years of failing marks, and for the finances of its faculty, who in two prior years received almost $200,000 in state school recognition bonuses. In arguing for the appeal, Jackson testing chairman Felix Diaz said it would be \u201cinconceivable\u201d not to receive the grade the school earned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reporter David Smiley spoke with StateImpact Florida about the grade challenge in January. <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2014\/01\/19\/why-miami-jackson-senior-high-school-wants-its-a\/\">Listen to that story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Education Commissioner Pam Stewart has proposed <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2014\/02\/12\/explaining-the-proposed-changes-to-floridas-school-grading-formula\/\">eliminating similar automatic grade reductions<\/a> in an effort to streamline the state school grading formula.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami Jackson Senior High School has lost its appeal to become an A-rated school after disputing test scores , the Miami Herald reports. The Florida Department of Education said the scores from students learning English would not have changed the school&#8217;s grade: The state\u2019s ruling was expected, even though Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":21604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[616,1039,693,1106,356],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21603"}],"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=21603"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21607,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21603\/revisions\/21607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}