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Madison County board debates reinstating S/N/U grading for K–3; asks staff to add numeric correlations and uniform criteria
Summary
School board discussed a proposal to reintroduce satisfactory/needs improvement/unsatisfactory (S/N/U) grading for grades 1–3 in select subjects, directed staff to add numeric correlations (proposed S ≥70, N ≈60–69, U ≤59), survey teachers, and reference the academic guide for implementation rather than codifying details in board policy.
Madison County Board of Education members spent the longest portion of their June 12 meeting debating proposed changes to elementary grading that would reintroduce satisfactory, needs improvement and unsatisfactory (S/N/U) marks in grades 1–3 for subjects such as science, social studies, handwriting, art, physical education and music and asked staff to add numeric correlations and systemwide criteria before final adoption.
Board members said the change responds to teacher requests after Madison County moved its student information system to PowerSchool and found that the earlier S/N/U formatting had been lost in the migration. Carrie Henshaw, an instruction-department staff member who presented the proposal, said the change grew out of teacher and principal feedback and not from the central office: “This is not a recommendation that my department came up with. This came from grassroots of the teachers talking about the management of the CKLA program, the requirements of both skills and knowledge.”
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