Escambia County (Ala.) School Superintendent John Knott addressed the recently released failing grade given to Escambia County High School by the Alabama Department of Education's State Report Card at Tuesday night's board of education meeting at W.S. Neal High School.
The 'F' given to ECHS places it in the lowest 6 percent based on the ACT Aspire test given to students grades three through eight and 10 across the U.S. last year.
"This assessment did not align to the standards we teach," said Knott. "It is hard to have confidence in data from that particular test. We recognize that we need to...