According to Arika Herring at the Indianapolis Star, the Indiana Board of Education is putting the brakes on changes to its proposed A-F letter grading system for another year or more. Without moving forward with the new system, “schools will receive two letter grades—one state,...
Eagle 99.3 FM WSCH reports that the Indiana State Board of Education is “once again looking to revise the state’s school accountability rules.” In January, the board voted 7-4 “to advance proposed changes for school accountability, in which schools and school corporations are annually assigned...
The Indianapolis Business Journal reports how, last year, Indiana officials learned from their federal counterparts that the state’s “general diploma” would no longer qualify to be included in the total number of graduates reported to the federal government. State Senator Dennis Kruse—the GOP chair of...
There’s been no shortage of coverage of the changes that Indiana will be implementing to its high school diploma. By doing away with its general diploma, it has been reported that Indiana’s graduation rate could drop as much as 12 percent. But, as Indiana Public...
An NWI Times article highlights the perspectives of educators on the impact of ESSA and raises awareness of what the new law aims to accomplish, including how these “school accountability plans, plus ESSA’s emphasis on educating all students equally, could be a significant factor in...
Carmen McCollum and Jessica Towhey report that state and local education officials are concerned ESSA “may negatively affect their districts,” especially regarding a “new requirement that will lower the graduation rate for high schools by not including those students who graduate with a general diploma,...
The Indianapolis Star reports (again) about Indiana’s quest to “save the state’s high school graduation rate from sinking toward to the bottom of national rankings” because if they don’t, thousands of student diplomas “will be discounted by the U.S. Department of Education and no longer...
Indiana stakeholders are concerned that local high school graduation rates will “slide” under ESSA because the law is “changing the way the numbers are formulated,” so in the next academic year, “general diplomas will not be counted,” which could create “the misconception that fewer students...
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Under ESSA, “thousands of Indiana diplomas known as general diplomas would no longer count for a school’s graduation rate,” and Indiana “could see its statewide graduation rate drop from 89 percent to 76 percent.” The state’s Congressional Delegation “wants the federal education department to give...
