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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the other position? That everything is fine, or that something different should be done to address any issues?[/quote] While not opining on the specifics of this proposal, as they are still a bit unclear, a lot of school districts like the current system as 85% of schools statewide are fully accredited without conditions. The new approach is going to see a lot more schools falling under more critical classifications (not necessarily a bad thing, in my view, but that’s one of the concerns). Those articles above touch on some of the specifics, such as that “mastery” scores will get higher weight than improvement, so schools in poorer areas are likely to do worse even if their kids are improving a lot. It also shrinks the period for which ELLs’ scores are excluded from the calculation (from 11 semesters to 3, or something), which is likely to drag down schools with lots of ELLs.[/quote]
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