Arkansas Department of Education blames letter grade discrepancies on a sorting error
The Arkansas Department of Education attributed discrepancies in school letter grades to a sorting error after journalists discovered conflicting data on a department spreadsheet.
Helena World Publisher Andrew Bagley launched the uproar with an article posted Tuesday, describing a team of journalists' discovery of a conflicting set a of grades on a spreadsheet that's since been deleted from the education department's website.
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