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Iowa City scores 'commendable' overall but state flag on special-education subgroup drops official rating
Summary
New state district performance profiles place Iowa City Community School District in the 'commendable' index range, but identification of a targeted special-education subgroup lowered the district's official category to 'acceptable'; trustees questioned how the state's 'gap cut' is calculated and noted upcoming reporting changes for chronic absenteeism.
Iowa City Community School District received a district performance profile from the state that places the district in the 'commendable' index band, but the district's official profile category was reduced to 'acceptable' after the state identified a targeted subgroup of students with disabilities as underperforming.
"You will see, that we actually stack up very nicely in comparison to the other urban districts in the state," said Speaker 3 during a board briefing on the newly released district profiles. The board was shown index-score comparisons and subgroup breakdowns that place Iowa City above the state average in many categories but below the state average for Black/African American, Hispanic and multiracial students…
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