Utah not only state looking at grading schools
Published on Aug 25, 2010 05:58PM

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Sen. Wayne Niederhauser and Rep. Greg Hughes, R-Draper, said yesterday they're working on a bill that would hold Utah schools accountable by giving them A-F grades, as Florida now does.
Utah's not the only state falling for Jeb Bush's education reform charms. Arizona recently adopted a measure to start giving its schools grades in much the same way as Florida. You can
read about it here on the Web site of the Goldwater Institute, which has been supportive of Florida's reforms (and of school choice and "constitutionally limited government") and actually released a policy report titled "Florida's K-12 Reform Lessons for Utah" yesterday (that report doesn't seem to be online yet, but I'll post it when it does appear).
Indiana has also approved A-F grades and New Mexico is talking about it.
Utah already has a school accountability system called U-PASS, in addition to having to follow accountability requirements under No Child Left Behind. Utah, however, has suspended making determinations over whether schools met state testing goals or not under U-PASS for the time being, per a new law passed earlier this year.