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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Public School Report Card On Performance

Gendron explains ‘lowest-achieving’ school rankings

By Abigail Curtis AUGUSTA, Maine — Under pressure by school administrations to explain how the Maine Department of Education came up with its list of the 10 “persistently lowest-achieving schools” which are eligible to apply for $12 million in federal funding, Commissioner Susan Gendron clarified the process Tuesday morning in a media conference call.
The department also made public its achievement and progress list for all Maine schools, although officials reiterated that they do not consider the list to be a ranking of schools.
“We know there will be a temptation by some to do the ranking,” Gendron said. “What we’re trying to stress is not the rank, but the data.”
Her department also has come under fire by some educators because of the way it shared the list of the 10 schools with school departments and the public.