The Ohio Department of Education plans to release its state school report cards Thursday morning and state leaders are telling parents, students and educators to brace themselves for significantly lower than usual grades.
The state has raised the bar on what qualifies as being proficient and how many students need to reach that standard to get a good report card grade.
Schools that are used to getting A鈥檚 and B鈥檚 could see their grades drop to D鈥檚 and even F鈥檚.
Republican Sen. PeggyLehnerof Kettering, who chairs the Senate Education Committee, says the high school graduation test used to test students at an eighth grade level.
鈥淲e鈥檙e done with that. We鈥檙e raising our standards so that when we tell you you鈥檙e at an eighth grade level, you鈥檙e at an eighth grade level. When we tell you that you鈥檝e graduated from high school, you have the skills to graduate from high school,鈥� Lehner said.
Lehner pointed to Massachusetts as an example of a state that鈥檚 done this and has seen positive results in the long term.
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