Georgia will go a third year without assigning A-to-F grades to public schools and districts because of the COVID-19 pandemic, after the federal government waived part of the requirements for the state’s normal evaluation system.
Instead, the state will publish multiple measures that are normally parts of the overall grade, saying it can’t reliably compute some figures because there was no testing in 2020 and widely varying shares of students from school to school took tests in 2021.
The U.S. Department of Education approved the change late last month and state officials announced it to superintendents in an email on June 2.
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