State lawmakers gave initial approval Monday to a bill that would do away with assigning a single letter grade to each of Utah’s public schools — with several calling the practice outdated and unable to “show the whole picture” of performance.
, hasn’t worked out as intended. Letter grades, he said during a hearing before the House Education Hearing on Monday, are less often a reflection of the quality of a school and more so of other factors, such as a neighborhood’s socioeconomic status or how many kids are in English language learner programs.the school year ending in spring 2022.There are few students there, Welton noted, who didn’t grow up speaking English as their first language.
His bill would end the controversial process of giving an A through F grade to a school each year and gained unanimous support from the committee Monday. It goes next to the full House for consideration. “It’s long overdue,” said Rep. Carol Spackman Moss, D-Holladay, who is a retired public school teacher.
School grades have been broadly panned by educators since the practice started. And there have been hiccups in following the program, too.
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