No more letter grades for evaluating NYC schools
New York City’s schools chancellor announced a new system for evaluating schools Wednesday that will replace A-through-F letter grades based largely on test scores with a more complex system that includes a variety of measures.
Chancellor Carmen Farina told educators and officials at a Brooklyn school auditorium that schools have unique qualities that cannot be captured in a letter grade.
Instead of a grade, Farina said, parents will be given a “school quality snapshot” that will include measures like graduation rates and standardized test scores as well as answers to survey questions such as “How well do teachers work with each other?” and “How interesting and challenging is the curriculum?”