LEHIGH VALLEY MORNING CALL: The number of charter schools hitting testing benchmarks plummeted after the federal government said the state Education Department graded them too leniently.
At first, nearly half of the state’s 156 charter schools whose students took the 2012 PSSA math and reading tests made so-called Adequate Yearly Progress under a new grading system Education Secretary Ron Tomalis implemented last summer…
The U.S. Department of Education, however, shot down that change in November. It ordered Pennsylvania to recalculate the charters’ AYP status on the school level and publicize the results by January. So under the federal order, charters must have the school-level and district-level grades… (more)
EDITOR: This is another example of how the Corbett administration is “W” on steroids. Everything done is to push its agenda by hook or by crook!
