See how your school ranks in new accountability scorecard
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The state released an updated school report card Tuesday that uses a color-coded system to measure performance on a district and individual school level.
The Michigan School Accountability Scorecards include a scale for how well a school meets proficiency goals that are tailored to each individual building. Colors are assigned accordingly, from red for fewer than 50 percent of goals met, to orange, yellow, lime green and green, which means more than 85 percent of goals are met.
Ten years from now, each school district is expected to reach the 85 percent proficiency goal and obtain the green label.
The scorecard is a result of Michigan's waiver from some federal requirements under the No Child Left Behind rules — one of is a 100 percent proficiency goal. The waiving of requirements means that Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) data will no longer will be reported.
Amy Biolchini is the K-12 education reporter for AnnArbor.com. Reach her at (734) 623-2552, amybiolchini@annarbor.com or on Twitter.
Comments
Jennifer McCurdy
Wed, Aug 21, 2013 : 2:44 p.m.
How much did this revamp of the AYP actually cost the state and the schools and ultimately the kids? Whats the per head cost of doing this? Is there a cost save to this very confusing useless system over the AYP letter grades? How about we stop dumping much needed funds into metrics of measuring the schools performance and actually put that money into educating the kids... and let their performance speak for itself? Why is that so hard of a concept? Why test the heck out of these kids with all kinds of standardized tests and then force teachers to teach to tests instead of teaching to the children? Do we have standardized kids? Do we want standardized kids? Get the money going to where it belongs - the kids - and not all this administrative overhead for pretty useless stuff.
Linda Peck
Tue, Aug 20, 2013 : 6:24 p.m.
I thought this was a reporting color coding to be applied to students. I was certainly wrong. But that does not make this website any easier to use, unfortunately.
MichU
Tue, Aug 20, 2013 : 5:43 p.m.
It looks like one more lame tool.
John
Tue, Aug 20, 2013 : 3:51 p.m.
Someone needs to take this data and put it into some form that is actually usable, because their website is terribly obtuse.
Participant
Tue, Aug 20, 2013 : 11:48 p.m.
I'm not sure if the website is at fault, or if the methodology and data are broken. My school district is "green" in every performance category, but "red" overall. What the heck am I supposed to take away from this? I am very supportive of the idea of collecting metrics and organizing them into usable "dashboards" to help people better understand how our schools are performing. In my opinion, however, whoever cobbled together this mess has no business consuming taxpayer dollars.