re: WAFB investigates students being given grades in an EBR School

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Just curious, but how do you propose schools should be "graded"? Because currently, most of a school's grade is based on student performance on standardized tests, which as you said, not every school is standard, nor are all the children. It has been widely argued that in general, schools with a higher poverty level have lower scores on standardized tests, which is why you might see lower school (and district) scores in BR or Baker as opposed to Zachary or Central. (Although this is not the case in schools with selective admissions or more parental involvement, such as Forest Heights Elementary, which has a high percentage of free/reduced lunch students but still scores an "A".)

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I was mainly blowing off steam and hadn't really thought more deeply on it. If I had to be pinned down on it I would think that having some sort of statewide graduation\promotion rate would have to be a large part of it. How would graduations and promotions to higher grades be monitored would be the question. Statewide exams? Blind records reviews by other schools? Some of both? Neither? Something else? I'm open to ideas.