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School letter grades debated

BY CAPITOL NEWS BUREAU

May 03, 2013

A bill set for House debate on Monday would politicize the issuance of letter grades to public schools, the executive director of an education group said Friday.

The proposal, House Bill 466, would require a change in state plans for how high schools are graded.

Without the proposal, backers said, new rules will make ACT results a major part of letter grades for high schools and have a negative affect on the results.

But Polly Broussard, executive director of the Associated Professional Educators of Louisiana, or A+PEL, said the bill would add a needless level of bureaucracy to the grading process.

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