
{"id":2718,"date":"2008-06-05T06:20:47","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T14:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=2718"},"modified":"2008-06-05T06:20:47","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T14:20:47","slug":"school-board-to-meet-on-grading-system-policy-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/06\/05\/school-board-to-meet-on-grading-system-policy-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"School board to meet on grading system, policy changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education meets tonight (Thursday) at 7 at the Chapel Hill Town Hall on Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. <\/p>\n<p>The board will consider in a work session a proposed change to student grading that would emphasize consistency and add a floor of 61 to the numeric grading scale. Opponents of the proposed policy change argue that a minimum grade of 61 inflates grades and lowers standards.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nOther items on the agenda include: <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Policy changes regarding the special education program\/rights of students with disabilities;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Policy changes regarding disciplinary action for exceptional children\/students with disabilities; <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Meal price increases; <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Policy changes regarding discrimination, harassment and bullying;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Graduation requirements; and<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Site selection for the district\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 11th elementary school. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education meets tonight (Thursday) at 7 at the Chapel Hill Town Hall on Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. The board will consider in a work session a proposed change to student grading that would emphasize consistency and add a floor of 61 to the numeric grading scale. Opponents&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}