{"id":5147,"date":"2012-02-22T11:42:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T16:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=5147"},"modified":"2012-02-22T13:44:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T18:44:25","slug":"explaining-why-more-florida-schools-will-earn-failing-grades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/02\/22\/explaining-why-more-florida-schools-will-earn-failing-grades\/","title":{"rendered":"Explaining Why More Florida Schools Will Earn Failing Grades"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"full_story\">\n<p><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/02\/failing-schools.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5150\" title=\"failing schools\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/02\/failing-schools.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a>Florida is getting stricter about the way it grades schools, and the proposed rules could mean a spike in the number of elementary, middle and high schools earning &#8216;F&#8217; grades.<\/p>\n<p>The state Board of Education is considering a new grading system next week. Before that meeting,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2012\/02\/21\/2653674\/new-grading-formula-could-mean.html\">state education officials made projections on the number of F grades<\/a> Florida schools would earn under the new grading system.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the breakdown of Florida&#8217;s largest school districts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In Duval County the number of F schools would go from 6 to 29.<\/li>\n<li>In Broward County the number of F schools would go from 5 to 27.<\/li>\n<li>In Hillsborough County the number of F schools would go from 2 to 18.<\/li>\n<li>In Miami-Dade County the number of F schools would go from 5 to 50. <!--more--><\/li>\n<li>In Orange County the number of F schools would go from 3 to14.<\/li>\n<li>In Palm Beach County the number of F schools would go from 1 to 14.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A new requirement in the grading system could\u00a0have a large role in the spike, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2012\/02\/21\/2653674\/new-grading-formula-could-mean.html\">according to <em>The Miami Herald<\/em>.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unless a school has at least 25% of its students reading at grade level, then Florida schools will automatically get an F grade, regardless of how well students do in other areas.<\/p>\n<p>Whether kids read at reading level will be based on the reading portion of the state&#8217;s new<a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/12\/13\/education-commissioner-defends-tougher-fcat-standards-would-you-pass-the-test\/\"> FCAT 2.0 test<\/a>, which is a more rigorous version of the FCAT and is <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/12\/08\/why-floridas-education-commissioner-raised-the-bar-on-reading\/\">expected to be harder to pass<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>State education officials have said more kids are expected to fail the new FCAT 2.0, which means more schools would also get lower, and failing grades.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida is getting stricter about the way it grades schools, and the proposed rules could mean a spike in the number of elementary, middle and high schools earning &#8216;F&#8217; grades. The state Board of Education is considering a new grading system next week. Before that meeting,\u00a0state education officials made projections on the number of F [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1035,1019,1106],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5147"}],"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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5167,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5147\/revisions\/5167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}