Lawmaker Wants to Change School Performance Scorecard

A color-filled scorecard ranking your child’s school would be a thing of the past under a bill soon-to-be introduced in the Michigan House.

State Representative Lisa Posthumus Lyons says she will push a bill again to change the color-coded scorecard to a letter grading system.

She introduced similar legislation last session.

Lyons says the color-coded scorecards are confusing and thinks the familiar A through F grades would be more straightforward.

A spokesperson for the Michigan Department of Education says they’re already looking at making that change.

If that happens the color-coded scorecard would be phased out in 2017.