An editorial from The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register
WHEELING, W.Va. — Many West Virginians may believe their public schools are good, deserving of A or B grades on the scale the state will use beginning next year. But it just isn’t so. A disturbing number of Mountain State schools are not serving students, parents and taxpayers as well as they should.
For years, state evaluations of schools relied on a system that was not very revealing to the public. Terms such as “focus” and “priority” had the ring of education bureaucratese.
But that will change next year. State officials are putting the finishing touches on a system of letter grades, A through F, that anyone can understand…
