Public schools would get more credit for their students' academic growth under a bill that the House approved Tuesday. Schools started receiving A-F letter grades this year based on the performance of ...

The formula, proposed to the state Board of Education by Department of Education officials at a work session on Thursday, will utilize achievement, growth and readiness as its three primary tenants.

ATLANTA - The opposition to a change in how Atlanta Public School teachers are supposed to grade their students is not abating. In fact, some teachers vow they will not comply. Under what's called the ...

The Senate Education Committee on Thursday filed a key bill that will allow lawmakers to tweak the controversial school grading formula. SPB 7060 is pretty much identical to state Education ...

The Arkansas Board of Education voted Thursday to release two legal rules governing the state's implementation of its new school accountability system for public comment. Under the accountability ...

Participants in a statewide survey are calling for North Carolina to change the way it measures school performance. A collaboration between the N.C. Department of Public Instruction and EdNC, an ...

I came up with the following formula for use in Excel:<BR><BR>=IF(A2>95.9,"A+",IF(A2>92.9,"A",IF(A2>89.9,"A-", IF(A2>85.9,"B+",IF(A2>82.9,"B",IF(A2>79.9,"B-",IF(A2>75 ...

For months, parents, principals and policy makers have lodged the same complaint: Florida’s school grading system has become so complex, it is virtually meaningless. On Tuesday, state Education ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Indianapolis Public Schools leaders filed a public records request Thursday seeking information on the 2011 takeover of four schools amid questions about the integrity of the state's ...