Concerns About District Grading Expressed
A-F school grading system changes heard at state ed board meeting
By KIM ARCHER World Staff Writer
Published: 2/28/2013
OKLAHOMA CITY – The state education board heard proposed changes to the A-F school grading system Thursday, but only after some heated discussion about whether the public must restrict their comments to the changes rather the entire system.
“You have boxed the board in. You didn’t come to us and say these are the rule changes we want to have. You didn’t do any of that,” said board member Lee Baxter.
Board legal counsel Kim Richey told Baxter that the reasons given for the proposed changes are written broadly enough that it would allow for comments any portion of the A-F school grading system.
Since its approval late last year, the A-F school grading system has been fraught with controversy. More than 300 superintendents statewide told the state Education Department that the formula used to determine each school’s grade was flawed and that they had no input into the system’s creation.