A committee of educators and lawmakers is considering changing Indiana’s high school grading system to account for the percentage of students that are enlisted, employed, or enrolled in post-secondary education within a year of graduating.
Nearly two-thirds of all Indiana students in grades 3-8 did not pass the new state standardized test, called ILEARN, according to results released Wednesday. The latest test scores represent a 13 percentage point drop in the passage rate since last year.
Scores for the first year of Indiana’s new test, ILEARN, are expected to be lower than previous years’ scores under ISTEP—a drop which could affect schools’ state grades and teachers’ pay.
