The Arkansas Department of Education wants you to share your thoughts on the state's proposal for its school grading system.Deputy commissioner Stacy Smith said in a meeting with the department last week that the feedback from the previous system was that it wasn’t transparent enough.“What we heard over and over and over again was that it was not transparent and we saw schools chasing small scale factors of attendance, small points for a kid in a computer science credit and not focusing on overall achievement in math, science and literacy and overall growth of their students,” Smith saidThe draft of the proposal includes criteria that determine what grade a school earns, such as the percentage of students exceeding proficiency scores on state exams and graduation rates.At a meeting last week the department said they ran a test with this new system and school officials say it’s more reflective of what’s going on in the classroom. “Superintendents were like, 'yeah, our our schools went down a little bit, but we can see why.' Or the schools that stayed flat, they're saying, 'yeah, we know what we need to work on.' And the ones that improved are like, this validates the hard work that we're seeing in our students in constant every day,” secretary of the Arkansas Department of Education, Jacob Oliva said.Schools would be graded on a letter system from "A to F".You can submit your thoughts until June 9.To leave your feedback, CLICK HERE.