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FDOE raises school grading scale

   May 18, 2011

The State Board of Education yesterday approved a plan to slowly bump up A-to-F grading standards, so schools will need to do better to earn top marks. Currently schools earn A’s for getting 66 percent on the grade calculation. The plan is to match the scale used to grade students: 90 percent or more for an A grade, at least 80 percent for a B and so on.

The change will be very gradual with the first increase bumping up the required score needed for an A by four points, to 70 percent.

Read Orlando Sentinel.

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