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Chalkbeat
Indiana schools will no longer get two A-F grades
By Emma Kate Fittes
December 3, 2019
School districts in Indiana will no longer receive a second A-F grade
after the approach was criticized last year for being confusing. But
the state will continue using two measuring sticks to rank schools.
In 2018, districts received two grades for the first time: One based
largely on test scores, which is the A-F grade Indiana has been handing
out for years, and one based on a new formula that Indiana added in
order to meet federal requirements under the Every Student Succeeds Act.
Tacking on the federal measure allowed Indiana to avoid changing its
A-F school grading system, which factors into teacher evaluations and
can trigger state intervention. But the approach faced backlash because
the two grades put different weights on different measures, and
therefore weren’t the same for many districts.
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