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Guilford grades improve if student growth carries more weight

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Guilford grades improve if student growth carries more weight

• By Marquita Brown
• Feb 6, 2015
• Feb 6, 2015
• 0

DeQuaceion Ceasar works at a computer in Lauren Faucette's fifth-grade class at Foust Elementary School on Thursday, February 5, 2015, in Greensboro, N.C.

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By Marquita Brown

Updated 11:54 p.m. Thursday

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Rockingham schools mostly pass

But if year-to-year progress is weighed as heavily as test scores, no schools would fail.

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All of the Guilford County schools that received an F have poverty rates higher than 50 percent. 

Courtesy of Guilford County Schools

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Contact Marquita Brown at (336) 373-7002, and follow @mbrownNR on Twitter.

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Click here for the Guilford County school board resolution.

Click here for a searchable database of North Carolina school performance grades.

Click here for the Guilford County Schools statement.

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