PUEBLO — After outcry from education advocacy and civil rights groups, Colorado schools will continue to be rated based on how well different groups of historically underserved students perform on state tests, the State Board of Education decided Wednesday.
The board, in a 4-3 vote, told state education department officials to continue to assign separate points on the state’s school rating system based on how well different groups such as English language learners and special education students fare on state tests.
Department staff had proposed only assigning points to one “combined subgroup” of all five categories of at-risk students. The proposal came from a recommendation from a committee representing school districts, charter schools and professional education associations that studied the issue at the departmentap request.
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