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Florida School Grades - Is the News Good or Bad?
Monday, December 21st, 2009 at 5:21am. 24 Views, 0 Comments.
Florida School Grades - Is the News Good or Bad? Each year about this time, the Florida Department of Education releases school report cards for the year that has just ended. Mind you, we’re not talking about student report cards here, but on school grades – a single letter grade for each school in the state. The grades are based partly on student scores in the FCAT, the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, and partly on a complex series of comparisons between last year’s scores and this year’s scores, except in cases where someone fouled up the tests, in which case they’ll compare this year’s tests with tests from two years ago or they might use next year’s tests if they can’t figure out any other way to figure it all out. Does that all sound…
