Study gives Utah school report card website an “F” grade [Video]

SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah school report card website received the letter grade F in a recent study done by the Center for Reinventing Public Education (CRPE). The study focused on the transparency of school report cards about the effects of COVID-19.

State Board of Education Spokesperson Sharon Turner questioned the study’s scoring method. She said one flaw is how the study takes into account how easy it was to find information online.

“I want to say, our website is scoring at over 90% when it comes to accessibility,” Turner said.

The study also used indicators like reading, math, absentees, and social studies into consideration. Utah doesn’t have a social studies requirement and, as a result, scored lower than other states.

“We don’t have social studies,” Turner said. “That’s not the way we are structured here so that was another disqualifier.”

CRPE scored states on how easy it is to …