New School Accountability System Changes Wrentham's Rating
Wrentham School Superintendent Jeff Marsden said Tuesday night the schools are doing well, but they are working on improvements on the high need students' scores.
The Wrentham School Committee discussed the ramifications of the in the Department of Education and Secondary Education Accountability System Tuesday night. The state required before that all schools have a 100 percent proficient rating in their MCAS scores by 2014, but now they are judged by all their students’ subgroups yearly progress and the decrease of achievement gaps, under the new Race to the Top initiative. Superintendent Jeff Marsden said while the new system is better, Wrentham’s rating will go from a level 1 district to a level to a level 2 because of the way subgroups impact the rating. “If you remember [The No Child Left Behind policy] required 100 percent proficiency,” he said. “I’ve stood here before talking about how it …
