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Vermont will use its matrix approach to identify when a school has made enough progress to exit improvement status.
The matrix allows schools to see how much progress they’ll need to make in order to exit improvement status. However, the matrix itself could be confusing to educators, and they may not be able to interpret exactly what they need to do in order to exit improvement status.
Moreover, it appears that Vermont may have set a low bar, because its proposed rules would allow a school to exit status based on the exit criteria and yet still be in the bottom 5 percent of schools statewide.
