That will change, said Margaret E. O'Kane, the group's president, who said it would start grading plans on the number of women over 50 getting mammograms every two years.
According to a 2007 study by the county's Health Department, 91 percent of the populace likes the letter-grading plan.
Tom Gallagher, the state's education commissioner and the architect of the school-grading plan along with the governor, said improvement would help dictate school grades as soon as the assessment tests are old enough to track annual progress.
"The Pakistanis took a lot of Libya's money and gave second-grade plans," the Arab intelligence operative said.
Haven, which has two classes each of kindergarten and first and second grades, plans to eventually enroll 300 students up to eighth grade.
The school, which now goes through the first grade, plans to expand through the fifth grade and to grow into a third building by 2013.
The study found that the children's performance in fifth grade could be explained, in part, by how they did on the third-grade planning task, even when taking IQ into consideration.
And Mr. Vallas has shifted the attention to his own efforts: a tough discipline policy, after-school programs, a standardized curriculum for kindergarten through ninth grade, plans to build five new schools and renovate 22 others, and a focus on high schools for academic improvement.
Hong et al. (2009) had also found that students from the 11th grade planned homework less than the 7th grade students.
