Monday, March 11, 2013
A School Board vote Monday ended months of discussion about grading scales at the high school and middle schools.
After months of discussions, a new grading scale has been put in place for Oak Creek's high school and two middle schools. The Oak Creek-Franklin School Board settled on a grading scale that blends a few options that have been bandied about over the last few months. The following is the scale to be put in place starting in the 2013-14 school year: Board member Mark Verhalen worked with Superintendent Sara Burmeister and proposed the scale adopted in the board's meeting Monday. Verhalen said it was something of a compromise between two other options the board had considered. "I thought it was pretty fair the way things were divided up," Verhalen said. The proposal passed on a 3-2 vote, with board members Kathleen Borchardt and Sheryl …
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Parents are invited to a meeting to learn about controversial changes to the Oak Creek-Franklin grading policy, and to tell the School Board how they feel about it.
A grading policy that counts strictly academic achievement — not attendance, effort or participation in class — was met with criticism last month, and the Oak Creek-Franklin School Board will get more input from parents before moving forward. The board will hold a meeting at 6 p.m. Monday at West Middle School, 8401 S. 13th St., that will include a presentation on the changes and an opportunity for the public to provide comments. A committee spent more than a year researching and discussing best grading practices and unveiled the plan near the start of the school year. Among the proposed changes: The school district has also proposed adjustments in the grading scales at Oak Creek High School and both middle schools. But the school board …
Friday, September 21, 2012
A committee will talk about adjustments to the high school and middle school grading scale and other proposed changes to grading policies.
Proposed changes to grading policies at Oak Creek's high school and middle schools will be discussed in depth at a meeting Oct. 22. A proposal that includes adjustments to the grading scales at Oak Creek High School and the district's two middle schools, as well as a policy that teachers would not deduct points for work turned in late, has come under criticism over the past few weeks. Those were two of several changes proposed by a committee that spent more than a year researching and discussing grading practices. School board members earlier this month postponed a vote so that the proposal could get a closer look. Superintendent Sara Burmeister said the board wanted to devote a whole meeting to this issue, rather than add it to the agenda…
Friday, September 7, 2012
Proposed change would make it tougher to get an A at Oak Creek High School and the district's two middle schools, while relaxing the percentages needed to pass.
The Oak Creek-Franklin School Board on Monday will discuss proposed changes to the middle and high school grading scales. Under the proposal, 96 to 100 percent would be an A, and 93 to 95 percent an A-. Last year, 95 percent was an A. On the bottom of the scale, 66 to 68 percent would be a D- (passing), as opposed to 70 to 71 percent. Officials say they want to make the grading scales at Oak Creek High School and the district's two middle schools consistent. According to minutes from an Aug. 20 school board committee meeting, a committee of teachers and principals worked for more than a year on the proposed grading scale, which "represents a compromise" betwen the middle and high school scales. But some parents worry that raising the …
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