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East Baton Rouge schools mark record graduation rate as state rolls out new accountability formula
Summary
At the Nov. 20 meeting, district leaders said the Louisiana Department of Education's new accountability scorecard leaves East Baton Rouge Parish with an overall C but cited the district's highest-ever graduation rate (76.3%) and gains at dozens of schools.
At the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board's Nov. 20 meeting, district officials presented newly released school and district performance scores from the Louisiana Department of Education and urged cautious celebration: the district's overall letter grade remained a C under both the old and new state formulas, while several school-level measures improved.
Superintendent Lamont Cole opened the discussion by thanking staff and promising a fuller report to come. "We did better, but we still have so much more to do," Cole said, calling the results a reason to celebrate briefly before returning to the work of…
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