First test of the Wisconsin 3 cueing ban. Parent files with DPI for the use of Reading Recovery.
The Unified School District of De Pere is under investigation by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction after board member Melissa Niffenegger accused the district’s reading curriculum and its director of curriculum and instruction, Kathy Van Pay, of violating Wisconsin law.
“That is retaliation. You are retaliating against the board for disagreeing with you,” board member Brandy Tollefson said.
According to a report Van Pay read Monday night, Niffenegger, who was elected to the board in April 2023, insisted the district was using three-cueing, a curriculum model that violates Act 20, the state’s new literacy law that requires young elementary students to get “science-based” reading curriculum with a focus on phonics.
Three-cueing is teaching strategy that uses context, structure and letters to identify words.
Madison’s well funded k-12 system and city government are seeking substantial 607M+ tax and spending increases via referendum this fall.
Madison taxpayers of long supported far above average K – 12 spending.
The data clearly indicate that being able to read is not a requirement for graduation at (Madison) East, especially if you are black or Hispanic”
My Question to Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers on Teacher Mulligans and our Disastrous Reading Results
2017: West High Reading Interventionist Teacher’s Remarks to the School Board on Madison’s Disastrous Reading Results
Madison’s taxpayer supported K-12 school district, despite spending far more than most, has long tolerated disastrous reading results.
“An emphasis on adult employment”
Wisconsin Public Policy Forum Madison School District Report[PDF]
WEAC: $1.57 million for Four Wisconsin Senators
Friday Afternoon Veto: Governor Evers Rejects AB446/SB454; an effort to address our long term, disastrous reading results
Booked, but can’t read (Madison): functional literacy, National citizenship and the new face of Dred Scott in the age of mass incarceration.
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