NM public schools will now get graded the same way their students are

From Capitol Report New Mexico - Gov. Susana Martinez appeared at an elementary school in Edgewood to officially sign a bill into law that will require public schools across the state to begin receiving annual report cards with letter-grades attached. Just as kids across New Mexico wonder (or worry) whether they’re getting an A, a B, a C, a D or an F, individual schools will now be in much the same boat. The Governor signed the bill in front of a large group of students at the Route 66 Elementary School in Edgewood, one of three schools nominated by the US Department of Education as a “blue ribbon school.” “We have to find ways to honor out students, we have to find ways to honor our staff,” school district superintendent Karen Couch said. “This will be a much better system than No Child Left Behind.” Under the new law, if a school receives a failing grade twice within four years, parents can take their kids out of that failing school and transfer them to another. Read more

NM public schools will now get graded the same way their students are