Calif. Will Redo School Rankings To Correct Errors in Poverty Data
California education officials are revising statewide rankings that compare the academic performance of schools that share similar demographics, after learning that more than half the state's 8,000 schools supplied incorrect data on student poverty.
The "similar schools" rankings, which were designed to weigh schools' results on state tests against those of schools with comparable numbers of low-income students, were recently removed from the education department's site on the World Wide Web. Department officials say they expect to post...
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