The Madison School District on Friday said it will maintain its current unweighted grading system for high schoolers.
The decision means that for the purposes of ranking students for a new state guaranteed college admission program, there is currently no way to distinguish students who take more challenging courses from those who take less-challenging courses.
“Our decision to keep what’s currently in place reflects our belief in the importance of a system that supports equity, maintains transparency and reflects our community’s values,” Mary Jankovich, the district’s executive director of college, career and community readiness, said in a Friday evening news release.
Under the new program, known as the Wisconsin Guarantee, students who rank in the top 5% of their class are guaranteed admission to the Universities of Wisconsin’s flagship UW-Madison campus, while students who rank in the top 10% are guaranteed admission to the system’s 12 other four-year schools.
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