Such scorecards seem to be effective. On the front page of Kentucky.com right now is a story on the fact that Kentucky got a D in children's rights (non-educational rights, that is). First Star and the Children's Advocacy Institute of USD Law gave out grades to each state and sent them to newspapers ... and ... front page, baby!
As far as I know, we don't really have anything similar for student educational rights. Maybe we should? Certainly we saw how effective the bullying scorecard was.