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Viscous Obama1/22/2013 3:44:24 pm PST

Another Corbett scam goes down in flames:

Pa. charter school ratings plummet under new calculations

The new system, which Tomalis initiated without federal approval and at the behest of a charter school lobbying group, made it easier for charter schools to reach federal standards than traditional public schools. It classified charters, no matter their size, as school districts, which are measured on a broader scale than individual schools.

The U.S. Department of Education, however, shot down that change in November. It ordered Pennsylvania to recalculate the charters’ AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress) status on the school level and publicize the results by January. So under the federal order, charters must have the school-level and district-level grades.

Under Tomalis’ system, 77 charter schools — or 49 percent — made AYP when they were measured as school districts.

But when tabulated as individual schools, only 43 — or 28 percent — made AYP, according to a Morning Call analysis of state data.

By comparison, 49 percent of the state’s public schools made AYP and about 61 percent of the state’s 499 school districts that administered the PSSAs did, too.