OKLAHOMA CITY — Fifty-nine school districts, including the three largest in the state, have had their accreditation status downgraded over poor reading and math test scores.
The Oklahoma State Board of Education voted Thursday to designate the districts as “accredited with warning” along with eight others that had non-academic deficiencies. Accredited with warning is defined as having a deficiency that “seriously detracts” from the quality of a district’s education program, according to Oklahoma State Department of Education documents.
This is the first time Oklahoma has applied a relatively new rule that penalizes districts’ standing if more than half of their students score “below basic” on yearly state reading or math tests for two years in a row…