New superintendent scrutinizes Maryland Report Card school rating system, launches accountability task force

Maryland’s new state superintendent of schools, Carey Wright, positioned her tenure as one built on honesty and transparency in an introductory news conference Monday. Among her first actions is creating a task force to examine the Maryland Report Card, the state’s accountability system that measures schools’ performance.

The report card takes multiple factors into account to rate individual schools on a scale of five stars. Measures include graduate rates, performance on statewide exams...