SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California parents will soon need a special chart to understand the state’s new color-coded school accountability system.

“Several aspects of the latest version seem overly complicated,” California State PTA vice president Patty Scripter told the Los Angeles Times. “We encourage the board to pilot-test the words and colors with parents.”

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Gabe Rose, chief strategy officer for the education reform group Parent Revolution, came to the same conclusion about “the California Model” under consideration by the state board of education that incorporates 17 colored boxes to rate academic performance and other factors.

“Our number one concern continues to be whether or not the system is easily usable for all families,” Rose said. “Unfortunately, right now we feel the answer is no.”

The state ditched its Academic Performance Index – which used a number between 200 and 1,000 based largely on student performance – last March to develop a new system in line with federal regulations in the recently approved Every Student Succeeds Act.

The system presented to board members Wednesday represented months of discussions and incorporated numerous factors, including student attendance, English proficiency, dropout rates, parent engagement, college and career readiness and others using colors to indicate progress or regress, The Orange County Register reports.

“The color-coded approach, the California Model, would be online and show boxes under different categories,” according to the news site.

“Each box would get a color signifying performance based on state and federal standards. A table would accompany each chart, where parents and educators could look up what each color means.”

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The charts include 25 different colors that are supposedly designed to relay the current status of each category, as well as progress over time, the Times reports.

State board members haggled over the preliminary draft of the California Model for four hours at their meeting Wednesday, discussing details down to the shade of the colors used. Eric Crane, the designer of the new school report cards, contends the new model does what it’s supposed to – expose areas where schools need improvement.

“There’s no hiding performance that would be of concern,” he told the Times.

He said the goal of all schools under the new system would be to “get to green.”

Meanwhile, education advocates like Education Trust-West believe the new California Model, with such a wide variety of data included, could be problematic.

The group sent a letter to the state education department expressing “major concerns and questions about how these many indicators and data points fit together,” according to the news site.

And while some are concerned about information overload, the state board Wednesday approved even more evaluation measures, including a survey on “school climate,” an “equality report” that measures how included minority students feel in their schools, as well as college and career readiness gleaned from 11th grade test scores, the Times reports.