The Utah Board of Education has not assigned any letter grades in its annual school report cards for the past year — despite the requirement in state law to do so — blaming computer glitches that stopped thousands of students from completing their spring standardized tests and resulted in bad data for evaluating performance.
It’s the first time the board has said it would not be able to provide accurate rankings since it started doing the reports six years ago.
“Some schools were more affected than others with the testing interruptions,” said Mark Peterson, spokesman for the board.