{"id":7369,"date":"2012-05-10T12:19:58","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T16:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=7369"},"modified":"2012-05-11T07:34:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T11:34:33","slug":"florida-schools-get-one-year-to-transition-into-tougher-grading-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/05\/10\/florida-schools-get-one-year-to-transition-into-tougher-grading-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Schools Get One Year To Transition Into Tougher Grading Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7370\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 240px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/05\/10\/florida-schools-get-one-year-to-transition-into-tougher-grading-standards\/kids-in-class\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7370\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7370\" title=\"kids in class\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/05\/kids-in-class.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">mrsdkrebs<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/p><\/div>\n<p>With a tougher grading formula looming for Florida\u2019s schools, state Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson is recommending a plan that would keep any public school from <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.orlandosentinel.com\/news_education_edblog\/2012\/05\/school-grading-formula-no-school-should-fall-more-than-one-letter-grade-this-year-commissioner-robinson-recommends.html\">falling more than one letter grade <\/a>this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fldoe.org\/board\/meetings\/2012_05_09\/commrec.pdf\">In a list of recommendations<\/a>, Robinson asks the Florida Board of Education to \u201cauthorize a maximum one school letter grade drop for 2011-12 to allow public school leaders, teachers and students a year of transition into our new standards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Board of Education <a href=\"http:\/\/educationfl.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/23\/statement-by-commissioner-of-education-gerard-robinson-regarding-proposed-changes-to-floridas-school-grading-system\/\">adopted tougher standards in February<\/a>. Without the transitional grading proposed by the commissioner\u2019s task force, Robinson says 10 percent of schools would see at least a two letter grade drop.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson\u2019s data shows that 38 schools would get an F if the grading standards did not change at all. Under the new standards, 199 schools would fail. Using Robinson\u2019s transitional grading, 131 schools would get an F.<\/p>\n<p>The board approved the recommendation at its meeting Thursday in Tampa. It also approved changes that will factor <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.tbo.com\/news\/breaking-news\/2012\/may\/10\/florida-board-of-education-approves-school-grade-c-ar-402139\/\">English language learners and students with disabilities<\/a> into the school grading system. The Hillsborough and Miami Dade districts were particularly concerned about those students being at a disadvantage in the grading process.<\/p>\n<p>In all, the board adopted five of 35 policy recommendations developed by the task force at a meeting in March:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Florida Alternative Assessment Learning Gains \u2013 reduces from 11 to five the number of points required for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fldoe.org\/asp\/altassessment.asp\">Florida Alternative Assessment<\/a> test takers remaining at levels 1 to 3 to make learning gains.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>English Language Learner Entry Date \u2013 authorizes school districts to use the date of entry into a school in the United States as the beginning point for including English Language Learners in Florida\u2019s Accountability System.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Maximum One-Letter Grade Drop \u2013 authorizes a maximum one school letter grade drop for 2011-12 to allow public school leaders, teachers, and students a year of transition to Florida\u2019s new standards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Weighted Learning Gains for Florida Alternative Assessment and Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test \u2013 provides a balanced measure for levels 1 and 2 students who make learning gains that are more than the minimum expected.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Center School Gains and Proficiency for Home School Grade \u2013 attributes student\u2019s performance and learning gains to the home school if the center school chooses a school improvement rating.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a tougher grading formula looming for Florida\u2019s schools, state Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson is recommending a plan that would keep any public school from falling more than one letter grade this year. In a list of recommendations, Robinson asks the Florida Board of Education to \u201cauthorize a maximum one school letter grade drop for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1066,1075,356],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7369"}],"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\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}