State To Release Low-Achieving Schools List

DETROIT (WWJ) - State education officials are scheduled to release an annual list of Michigan's persistently lowest-achieving schools late Friday morning.

The rankings are based on a federal formula. WWJ Lansing Bureau Chief Tim Skubick said administrators across Michigan worry when their public
school gets "publicly shamed"

"As part of what the legislature and the governor want to do, they say this kind of transparency of letting the parents know what's going on in the schools, is one way to change things around. Generally, when this list comes out, the schools that are on it have five years to clean up their act by coming up with remediation programs, that they have to submit to the state within 90 days to show what they're to do to turn test scores around."

The "top-to-bottom" ranking of all public schools based on proficiency, student achievement, improvement, graduation rates and other factors.

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