Communities divided over proficiency based learning

Rep. David Sharpe chairs the House Education Committee. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger
For almost 150 years, teachers, parents and students in Vermont tracked progress using a percentage system. The higher the better, and as long as you got a certain score at the end of the year, and spent enough hours in class, you passed to the next grade.
A few years ago, the state decided the old way of doing things wasn’t working anymore, and in 2014, the State Board of Education adopted educat