Important read!-----Michigan’s Reading Proficiency Is Abysmal, But Nearly Every Public School Teacher Is Deemed “Effective”

In Flint, less than 4% of third graders tested proficient in English, yet not a single teacher got an “ineffective” rating - By Tom Gantert 

• Michigan school administrators and teachers received top marks from State Department of Education evaluations in 2024. 
• Meanwhile, more than 60% of Michigan’s third graders failed to meet state standards for reading proficiency this spring.
• Public education in Michigan has a serious accountability problem...

Meanwhile, the state’s conventional public schools want to gut transparency and accountability for their own performance.
Consider Flint’s public schools, where just eight of the 220 third-grade students (3.6%) who took the 2023-24 MSTEP assessment were proficient in English language arts.

• While the students struggled mightily, Flint Community School’s teacher assessments told a different story. Not a single Flint teacher, of 154 evaluated in 2023-24, was found to be either “minimally effective” or “ineffective.” 
• Instead, 35% of teachers reached the top rating of “highly effective,” with the remaining 55% receiving the second highest rating, “effective.”..