A Palo Alto High School student’s push to have her weighted GPA listed on her transcript in order to qualify for a scholarship is leading the school board to re-evaluate its practice of omission, ...

Superintendent Alison Villanueva was about a month into leading Connecticut’s Watertown school district when she suddenly found herself facing a “catastrophe, PR nightmare.” A high school principal ...

Calculating weighted grades for Lawrence high school students may help senior John Parker reduce the pain of paying for a college education. “They colleges I’ve applied to … they ask for it,” said ...

Even after Pasco County schools distributed their first semester report cards nearly two weeks late, problems with the documents did not end. Some high school parents and students quickly noted that ...

READING, Pa. – The Reading School Board will consider a revised policy for grade point average and class rank for grades 9-12 at next Wednesday’s meeting. The decision was made at the committee of the ...

After three hours of discussion and passionate pleas from more than 30 parents and high school students, the Palo Alto school board Tuesday decided in a 5 to 0 vote to report weighted grade-point ...

Weighted GPAs in Palo Alto schools: Would they create unhealthy focus? Palo Alto: Weighted GPAs will be on transcripts later this year Palo Alto high schools open wellness centers Whether a Palo Alto ...

After three hours of discussion and passionate pleas from more than 30 parents and high school students, the Palo Alto school board Tuesday decided in a 5 to 0 vote to report weighted grade-point ...

For high school students, grade point average is often a major focal point -- a barometer of their academic success. GPA is a factor in class rank, college admissions, scholarship eligibility and more ...

High school valedictorians are on the verge of becoming a thing of the past in Wake County as school leaders cut down on what they call unhealthy competition among top-achieving students. The Wake ...

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