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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's the Washington Post's coverage of the MSDE Report Card results:

SOURCE: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/12/03/maryland-school-report-card-results-2024/

[QUOTE]The number of Maryland schools that earned the highest ratings on the state’s annual report card increased this year, an improvement local education officials attributed to more students passing assessments taken in the spring.

Across the state, 41 percent of schools received at least 4 out of 5 stars on the rating, which measures schools based on academic achievement, the proficiency of multilingual learners and school quality, among other factors. That’s up from 38 percent last year.

Eighteen schools in Montgomery County — the state’s most populous jurisdiction — earned five stars, while four schools earned the top score in Prince George’s, both increases over last year. [b]Most of the top-rated schools are elementary schools.[/b]

Schools can earn up to 100 points on the report card. Last year, 80 percent of schools received at least three stars, which means they earned at least 45 points. This year, that figure rose to about 83 percent, according to data presented to the State Board of Education.

“What’s standing out to me is being able to see the forward-moving progress,” said Xiomara Medina, a state board member from Anne Arundel County. “We obviously know there’s a lot of work to be done, but I think that in looking at these graphs, it really lends itself to us working from a strengths-based model as opposed to a deficit-based model.”

This is the fifth report card after the state started rating schools in 2018. Ratings were not issued for the 2019-2020 school year or 2020-2021 school year due to the pandemic.

Geoff Sanderson, the deputy state superintendent for accountability, recently said the new data “mostly tracks with the slight increases we saw in overall student achievement from the prior year.”

[b]Montgomery County school leaders called the district’s results “disappointedly flat” in a news release Tuesday, saying the number of their schools earning at least three stars increased by less than 1 percent. Officials said a new literacy curriculum and an ongoing plan to decrease chronic absenteeism should help drive up student performance.[/b][/QUOTE][/quote]

In HS, for english, my child is on their second book this year.  That's not a good literacy curriculum.[/quote]

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