Oklahoma schools will get their annual report cards today. The report cards assign a letter grade to individual schools and will be released at a State Board of Education meeting.
This is the second year Oklahoma’s State Department of Education has released this version of report cards. The report cards measure and assign grades to all of the state’s schools for academic achievement and growth as well as English language proficiency progress and chronic absenteeism. Schools are then assigned an overall letter grade.
This new system of report cards replace an often-maligned report card that was discontinued in 2016 after education leaders condemned the system for relying too much on standardized tests.
However, critics of the new report card say that test scores remain too prevalent in the grading formula.