Tennessee’s Getting “Creative” on School Ratings
June 11, 2018
Marta W. Aldrich reports for Chalkbeat that Tennessee’s “plan to start grading its schools this year has taken a big detour,” thanks partially to recent online testing issues that “forced officials to toss out a new A-F grading system.” The state will now “rate each school on a scale of 0-4 on six different performance indicators” and “schools won’t receive a single overall grade or rating as initially planned.” Education Commissioner Candice McQueen says the change complies with both a new state law barring use of this year’s TNReady scores to assign letter grades to schools, as well as with ESSA.