Explanation of 2020-2021 Academic Scores

2020-21  School Year	Academic Accountability Report, 2020-21	State Charter School Performance: Gap Year Value-Added Model 2020-21

The disruption in teaching and learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic led the United States Department of Education (USEd) to grant the Georgia Department of Education’s (GaDOE) accountability waiver request for the 2020-2021 school year. As such, data critical to calculating all SCSC CPF academic performance metrics (e.g., the CCRPI), Value-Added Measure (VAM), and Beating the Odds (BTO) are not available.

GaDOE’s request for a waiver from federal assessment requirements was NOT granted. Thus, the statewide summative assessments, the Georgia Milestones Assessments were administered in the 2020-2021 school year. Using Georgia Milestone data, scores generated by GaDOE and where necessary school-administered benchmark assessment results, the SCSC crafted alternative measures to assess school performance for the 2020-2021 school year. On October 27, 2021, the SCSC approved a waiver from the traditional CPF academic measures and adopted the alternative measures. The academic section of the CPF has been modified to account for the changes. The academic briefing reports scores related to the updated, alternative measures. Please refer to either of those documents for more details.