By Travis Pillow
Schools that received A’s in Florida’s latest round of school grades while serving large proportions of disadvantaged students tend to share at least one of two features in common: Either they’re charter schools, or they’re located in Miami-Dade County…
…School accountability advocates caution this year’s grades are “informational,” and that in a few months, grades will be released for the 2015-16 school year based on fuller range of student achievement data, including learning gains.
In a statement, Patricia Levesque, the director of the Foundation for Florida’s Future, said:
“These grades give us our first glimpse into how schools are performing during the transition to more rigorous academic standards and assessments. They are for informational purposes only, carrying no sanctions but rewarding those schools that we know produced good results for children this past year…
