Normal fanfare missing in Ohio report card release

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s lat­est rat­ings of pub­lic school per­for­mance will land with more of a thud than a bang this year.

That’s because most ele­ments of the 2011–2012 report cards for the state’s 614 tra­di­tional pub­lic school dis­tricts have been delayed for months because of a statewide atten­dance tam­per­ing investigation.

The Ohio Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion plans to release two final ele­ments of the report cards Wednes­day after­noon: the over­all per­for­mance index for each dis­trict and build­ing; and the “value-added” mea­sure that rates stu­dents’ annual aca­d­e­mic growth.

Ohio’s per­for­mance index scale ranges from aca­d­e­mic emer­gency to excel­lent with dis­tinc­tion. A tra­di­tional A-through-F scale is being phased in begin­ning next year.

Rank­ings for about 80 dis­tricts with appar­ent irreg­u­lar­i­ties will be flagged as the depart­ment re-examines their atten­dance data.

Posted by Matt Echelberry on Feb 27 2013. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.