{"id":4460,"date":"2012-01-24T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T19:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=4460"},"modified":"2012-01-30T15:17:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T20:17:43","slug":"digging-deeper-on-floridas-new-district-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/01\/24\/digging-deeper-on-floridas-new-district-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Digging Deeper On Florida&#8217;s New District Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/01\/DistrictRankings.png\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4461\" title=\"DistrictRankings\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/01\/DistrictRankings-300x67.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"67\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/01\/DistrictRankings-300x67.png 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/01\/DistrictRankings-620x139.png 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/01\/DistrictRankings-220x49.png 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The folks at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jaxpef.org\/Home.aspx\">Jacksonville Public Education Fund<\/a> have a terrific post on their blog that adds some context to Florida&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/jp\/state-department-releases-fcat-based-district-rankings\/\">controversial new district rankings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>School officials have criticized the rankings as a simplistic measure considering only <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/tag\/fcat\/\">Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test<\/a> scores, and ignoring a district&#8217;s size, relative wealth and other underlying factors.<\/p>\n<p>The Jacksonville PEF analyzed districts including some of that data and came up with a graph showing expected and actual performance (click on the graph above to expand).<\/p>\n<p>So what does it tell us?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Dixie, Lee and Miami-Dade school performance most exceeds the expected FCAT performance. While Baker, Pinellas and Manatee counties fall the furthest short of the expected FCAT scores.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out the methodology and explanation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jaxpef.org\/blog\/12-01-23\/Adding_context_to_today_s_school_district_rankings.aspx\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of the new rankings? What about the Jacksonville PEF analysis?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at the Jacksonville Public Education Fund have a terrific post on their blog that adds some context to Florida&#8217;s controversial new district rankings. School officials have criticized the rankings as a simplistic measure considering only Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test scores, and ignoring a district&#8217;s size, relative wealth and other underlying factors. The Jacksonville [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":4461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[193,1039,267,1041],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460"}],"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=4460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4465,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions\/4465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}