Green is a great school. Red is bad. Lime, yellow, and orange are in-between.
Michigan’s color-coded school accountability system could be up for an overhaul just two months after its debut. Some lawmakers say A-F grades are easier to understand.
The House education committee was expected to start hearings last week on soon-to-be introduced legislation to switch to letter grades, which about 15 states use.
In the 2012-13 evaluations, some schools were rated red despite being seen as traditionally high-performing, while others got green despite having no performance data because they were new, according to critics.
