Ed reforms needed: 'A' for almost no effort.

AuthorSoave, Robby
PositionCitings - School rankings - Brief article

SEVEN SCHOOLS in Flint, Michigan, received Fs from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy's most recent ranking. Just one school got an A, and the rest received Cs. Michigan's own ranking system paints an equally ugly picture: Nearly two-thirds of Flint's public schools landed in the state's bottom 10 percent.

And yet the district doesn't seem to think its staff has much room to improve. Some 94 percent of teachers--and 99 percent of administrators--are currently rated as "effective," the second highest possible designation in the district's evaluation system. Few were deemed...

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