By SUSAN McMILLAN Kennebec Journal
AUGUSTA — When the state released report cards
for schools in May, perhaps no one was more frustrated or disappointed
than the leaders of schools with letter grades that made them look worse
than their test scores and graduation rates say they are.
Twenty of the 122 high schools that received grades were docked a
letter grade for falling short of the threshold of 95 percent
participation on state standardized tests of math and reading in 2012.
Elementary
and middle schools are subject to the same penalty, but all of them met
the threshold. A few of the schools that were penalized were knocked
from a B down to a C, but most ended up with a D or an F.
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