EFFORTS Made Florida a pioneer in the accountability movement by issuing report cards for every school based on test results.
The scores also will affect nearly every level of the system, with teachers and principals eligible for financial bonuses based on test results, and individual schools assigned letter grades based on student improvement.
Mr. Demps said state education officials insisted that the loss of accreditation would not harm the college prospects of Kansas City graduates, who can expect admission based on test results.
The ratings released on Friday are more than a year old and are based on test results that have been somewhat discredited, since the state later recalibrated the scoring.
Jeb Bush Phillipss Andover), the former governor of Florida and the founder of the Excellence for Education Foundation, is responsible for making Florida a pioneer in the accountability movement by issuing report cards for every school based on test results.
A complicating factor, however, is that this year's tenure decisions were based on test results from previous years that state officials now say were probably inflated by easy exams and liberal scoring.
But since Mr. Skinner has been in prison, Texas has developed one of the strongest post-conviction DNA laws in the nation, and 45 inmates have been exonerated in the last decade based on test results.
Based on test results, the numerical model is validated and the shell design is optimized by virtual testing.
Design codes for punching shear resistance of flat slabs are based on test results obtained from isolated slab-column connections.
