{"id":35740,"date":"2015-04-29T19:15:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T23:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=35740"},"modified":"2015-04-29T19:15:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T23:15:33","slug":"school-board-votes-to-not-count-scores-from-standardized-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/04\/school-board-votes-to-not-count-scores-from-standardized-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"School Board Votes To Not Count Scores From Standardized Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2172\" title=\"lee county schools\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/lee-county-schools.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"155\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/lee-county-schools.jpg 155w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/lee-county-schools-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/>The School Board of Lee County<\/strong>\u00a0has cast a unanimous vote to lessen the high stakes associated with state required End of Course Exams by eliminating the 30% weight the exam has on a student\u2019s final grade.<\/p>\n<p>Students enrolled in Algebra I, Algebra II, Geometry, US History, Biology and Middle School Civics will continue to participate in the End of Course Exams for assessment purposes. However, the result of these assessments will have no impact on the final grade parents see on the student\u2019s report card.<\/p>\n<p>This vote comes just days after\u00a0<strong>Superintendent Nancy Graham<\/strong>\u00a0empowered Principals to eliminate hundreds of end of year common course exams previously required by the state in nearly every subject for use in calculating a teacher\u2019s VAM score required for the statewide teacher performance system.<\/p>\n<p>As of last Thursday, teachers have the flexibility to choose the final exam for any subject that does not have a required statewide assessment attached to it. Dr. Nancy Graham is encouraging teachers to choose exams that will most effectively assess student learning and inform classroom instruction.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School Board of Lee County\u00a0has cast a unanimous vote to lessen the high stakes associated with state required End of Course Exams by eliminating the 30% weight the exam&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}