Underly says critics of new Wisconsin testing benchmarks ‘getting it wrong’
She wants to make it easier for failing schools to somehow seem like they’re succeeding,” Vos said during a press conference. “I hope that’s one of the areas that we’ll get some speedy discussion on, hopefully bipartisan support. Because I would hope that no one, the most liberal person or the most conservative person, would want to dumb down our standards.”
In an interview with WPR, Underly said the change was made to make test scores more meaningful.
She said decisions were not made in a vacuum.
“So we aligned the standards to actual scores that would mean something. Updating those scores aligned the Wisconsin test to the Wisconsin standards, so Wisconsin teachers and parents know how Wisconsin kids are doing,” Underly said. “The critics are absolutely getting it wrong. They’re talking about two different things, and that’s what’s frustrating about it.”
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