School Report Cards

Elementary and secondary students in Illinois showed consistent improvements in their reading and math scores while the state’s high school graduation rate reached a 13-year high for the most recently concluded school year.

The test measures reading and math proficiency for fourth- and eighth-graders. It's administered every two years, but the pandemic delayed the 2021 report until now.

Only nine of Missouri’s 518 public school districts lack full accreditation from the State Board of Education. But some of those districts have been there…

How the Missouri education department measures student comprehension and school performance is complicated. The manual for determining a school’s…

Missouri schools are getting a different kind of report card from the state. It's now color coded instead of offering a numerical grade.The Annual…

Missouri education officials released long-awaited school report cards Friday, and the good news is most schools are meeting expectations.In fact, 97…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, March 13, 2013 - If students get grades in school, should the schools get grades as well?That’s the…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Jan. 7, 2013 - Missouri gets a D-minus and Illinois gets a D in a new nationwide education report…