Will mom & dad make the grade?-report cards for parents [View All]

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Mayor L. Douglas Wilder wants the city to grade them regularly starting in September.

He envisions giving parents marks on everything from their involvement in schools to their children's attendance.

Wilder has not yet settled on a specific grading plan, whether it will be A's through F's or a point system. Nor has he determined the cost of administering the new program. He is planning to include funding for it in his proposed budget for next fiscal year.


Wilder's idea isn't entirely new. A parental involvement checklist goes out to parents in Lebanon, Pa., and Chicago Public Schools considered the idea several years ago but never implemented it system-wide. Some Chicago schools issue checklists to parents, a spokesperson said.

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