Trump's fault??!!-----San Francisco Public Schools Convert F's to C's, B's to A's in Equity Push - Newsweek

The initiative, part of a broader "Grading for Equity" push, is stirring concern among educators, students and parents over academic standards and college readiness.

• Ed. Note: After significant backlash, San Francisco's public school system announced it was cancelling the "Grading for Equity" initiative...

Dublin Unified attempted a pilot of equity grading in 2023, which included 

• removing zeros for missed assignments and
• awarding a minimum of 50 percent for any "reasonably attempted" work...

The Dublin school board eventually suspended the initiative, though individual teachers were still allowed to use the methods at their discretion.

• The experiment in San Francisco comes amid — or despite — a broader rethinking of DEI initiatives after the election of Donald Trump, who ran on a platform of excising what he and many others said were "unfair" equity practices in the government and private sectors...