Clarification: This story has been updated to reflect that approximately 300 failing grades were changed.
Counselors at a Jefferson County Public Schools middle school are working to change student grades after they were altered to pass students who were failing.
Stuart Academy had about 300 failing grades before the winter break but counselors, without teachers’ knowledge, changed each of the grades to a D, teachers at the school told The Courier Journal.
The changes prompted Superintendent Marty Pollio to launch an internal investigation, set to “begin immediately,” JCPS spokeswoman Carolyn Callahan told The Courier Journal Thursday afternoon. When she was first contacted about the situation less than two hours earlier, she said district leaders had not heard about it and would look into it.
It is unclear whether parents have been notified about the changes.
The investigation comes after the school’s principal informed teachers Wednesday the grades would be returned to what students actually earned.