<p>I am surprised this has not been mentioned.
The idea of rating schools has merit. The problem is can we trust the rating systems and the people behind them?</p>
<p>[Fate</a> of Indiana school grading system uncertain - Yahoo! Finance](<a href=“http://finance.yahoo.com/news/fate-indiana-school-grading-system-140635480.html]Fate”>Fate of Indiana school grading system uncertain)</p>
<p>Tony Bennett and Mitch Daniels had a lot of haters. I wasn’t a big fan of Mitch, but I felt Tony made some long-needed reforms. They were both brusque and heavy-handed which didn’t win them fans. Tony lost the election because he put no effort into re-election and the Democrat candidate for State Dept of Ed Sup’t had the backing of teachers. They did a lot of leg-work/grass roots support.</p>
<p>All my teacher friends think Tony was the devil. My business friends think he made great strides and reforms in long entrenched systems. They both shook things up, that’s for sure!</p>
<p>Indiana superintendents are not big fans of the rating systems (no surprise there). Our school got a D, and I’d say that’s right on target.</p>
<p>The problem is that it appears they played with the grading of a school owned by a “friend”. You have to have a level playing field if rating systems are going to work. Not one where after grades are issued you are surprised by a low grade so you work to change it.</p>