Is the new tool for evaluating schools too kind in its grading?

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Mar 17, 2017

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Is the new tool for evaluating schools too kind in its grading?

It's a new education rating's system designed to assess the state our public schools, but according to some reports, it may be a little too kind in its grading.

Screenshot: California School Dashboard Tutorial

It's a new education rating's system designed to assess the state our public schools, but according to some reports, it may be a little too kind in its grading.

Is the new tool for evaluating schools too kind in its grading?

A new rating system when online earlier this week, it's called the California School Dashboard. Schools superintendent Tom Torlakson described it as "high-tech report card." But after an analysis by the L.A. Times, the paper says the Dashboard "paints a rosier picture...than past measurements" of some schools that have underperformed in the past.

KPCC's education editor Maura Walz has been spending a lot of time with the Dashboard tool, and she came back to talk to A Martinez about it.

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