Republicans push for ratings reports for K-12 schools
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Republicans push for ratings reports for K-12 schools

Date: February 14, 2013
By: Ke'yanna Johnson
State Capitol Bureau
Links: HB388

Intro: 
If you have kids in school, performance reports and school ratings could be more accessible and easier to understand under a measure presented by the House Education Committee.
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Wrap: The House committee voted in favor of the measure that would require schools to be rated by letter grades on a scale of zero to one-hundred.

Cape Girardeu Representative Kathy Swan is the sponsor of the bill that would require the Department of Education to publish a simplified grading report on the performance of each public school.

Swan says the simplified report would make it easier for all to understand.

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Description: "So by translating it into letter grades it makes it much more understandable for parents and communities to know how their schools are doing and how students are learning in those schools."
 
The report is for informational purposes.Schools would not be penalized for bad grades.
 
Reporting from the state Capitol, I'm Ke'yanna Johnson.

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Parents could soon have easier access to information about the performance of their child's public school.
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Wrap: The House Education Committee has endorsed a bill that would require the Department of Education to publish a simplified grading report on the performance of each public school.

The measure would require school's to be graded with a letter grade on a scale of zero to one-hundred. Principals of each school would be responsible for notifying parents and the community.

Republican Representative Steve Cookson, of Poplar Bluff, says the measure could be beneficial to students.

 

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Description: "Anytime we can engage those local communities we're going to get better results for our students."

A school would not be penalized if the grades in the report are bad.

Reporting from the state Capitol, I'm Ke'yanna Johnson