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DUMBING IT DOWN: North Carolina Lowers Standards For Rating Schools
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By
Hank Berrien
February 26, 2019
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The North Carolina legislature is
discussing a bill that would lower the standards for public schools, allowing the schools to be judged by a less stringent standard.
House Bill 145 states:
The State Board of Education shall calculate the overall school performance score by adding the school achievement score, as provided in subsection (b) of this section, and the school growth score, as determined using EVAAS as provided in subsection (c) of this section, earned by a school. The school achievement score shall account for eighty percent (80%), and the school growth score shall account for twenty percent of the total sum. For all schools, the total school performance score shall be converted to a 100-point scale and used to determine an overall school performance grade. The overall school performance grade shall be based on the following scale and shall not be modified to add any other designation related to other performance measures such as a "plus" or "minus":
Then the bill outlines the new parameters:
A school performance score of at least 90 85 is equivalent to an overall school performance grade of A.
A school performance score of at least 80 70 is equivalent to an overall school performance grade of B.
A school performance score of at least 70 55 is equivalent to an overall school performance grade of C.
A school performance score of at least 60 40 is equivalent to an overall school performance grade of D.
A school performance score of less than 60 points 40 is equivalent to an overall school performance grade of