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Teachers and residents raise concerns about graduation rates, standards-based grading and math proficiency; board debates cell-phone policy
Summary
At public forum May 8, a Capital High world-history teacher and a volunteer tutor told the Santa Fe Public Schools Board that diploma rates and student proficiency diverge; board members later discussed standards-based grading and agreed to engage students and staff on a workable cell-phone policy.
During the public forum at the May 8 Santa Fe Public Schools Board of Education meeting, teacher and community speakers criticized district messaging about graduation rates and asked the board to clarify grade-promotion and assessment practices. Board members later discussed standards-based grading and the district's approach to cell-phone use in classrooms.
Garren Spray, a world-history teacher at Capital High School, told the board that district press materials presented misleading graduation rates. "85 percent of our students were handed diplomas, while only about 20 percent of them are actually proficient," Spray said in public comment. He criticized what he called the district's implementation of…
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