Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a bill Monday to toss out the Republican-backed A-F letter grade system for evaluating Michigan schools, saying the policy amounted to “burdensome requirements.”
Whitmer’s office announced the final approval of the repeal proposal in a statement that touted spending her administration has made in public education.
“Less is more with the repeal of the A-F system, which always tried to create the false impression that rating schools was easy. It isn’t,” State Superintendent Michael Rice said in the statement from Whitmer’s office. “Schools are complex, and what educators do daily for children is as well. It distills poorly into a letter grade system.”
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