OWENSBORO, Ky. (WEVV)—� No matter where your student attends school from Hopkins County, to Owensboro and every corner of the state, color-coded changes are being implemented for the first time this year.
Finding out how effective a particular school in Kentucky is will soon be as easy as looking at the color-coded grade it earned from a state accountability system.
According to the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE), the standards were adopted as part of a panel of education stakeholders.
They gathered in Frankfort last week to vote on the new guidelines for judging a school's effectiveness.
The system will use data from the 2022-23 school year to provide the color-coded overall performance for each school, district, and for the state.
The information will be a part of the Kentucky School Report Card.
The report card is posted online yearly and looks at measurable items like test performance, teacher qualifications, student safety, parent involvement, and other factors.
A combination of academic and school quality indicators will now be used to measure schools. The overall performance rating is based on a cumulative score considering all available factors. The score is then used to identify the state's worst schools.
According to the KDE, Â the standard-setting committee recommended cut scores that define performance expectations for all status levels ("very low" through "very high") and change levels ("decreased significantly" through "increased significantly") for each indicator.
Once approved by the Kentucky Department of Education and the Local Superintendents Advisory Council, the cut scores will remain in place for six years.
