Utah lawmakers have moved a step closer to eliminating a requirement for the state school board to assign letter grades to public schools as part of the state accountability report.
, which would do away with the requirement that was criticized as ineffective and paints an incomplete picture of what occurs in Utah schools. The bill moves to the House for further consideration.
If letter grades were removed from the state report card, other indicators would remain such as achievement, growth of the lowest-performing quartile of students, college and post-secondary education readiness and progress of English language learners, he said. Rep. Carol Moss, D-Holladay, said there is a "wide variation" of school grades in Granite School District, where she taught school until her retirement and a portion of which is in her legislative district.
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