INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana’s education leaders are learning from the mistakes of former School Superintendent Tony Bennett, starting with their promise to spend more time crafting Indiana’s new school grading formula and doing so in the open.
Senate President Pro Tem David Long, R-Fort Wayne, and House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, said drafting a new formula will have to be done transparently in order to earn the public’s trust. The two commissioned a review of Indiana’s grading formula a few days after The Associated Press published emails showing Bennett changed the formula to bump the grade of a prominent Republican donor’s charter school from a C to an A.
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