Legislation to Improve Wisconsin k-12 Rigor
“If we have our own standards aligned to nobody else’s, guess what: We can fool ourselves into thinking that we are great, because we have no ability to compare ourselves to anybody else,” he said.
The bill would require DPI to align scoring methods for the language arts and math sections of the Forward Exam to the systems used by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a test administered to representative samples of students in districts across the country. DPI would also have to use the same scoring ranges in the ACT and PreACT sections it used in the 2021-22 school year.
For ACT tests, DPI would also be required to use the terms “below basic,” “basic,” “proficient” and “advanced” to describe student performance. DPI has recently started to describe student performance levels as “advanced,” “meeting,” “approaching” and “developing.”
The bill would also require DPI get legislative approval any time it wants to change reporting standards.
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Voting against AB1 is essentially telling parents “we’re okay with DPI lying to parents about how kids are doing.” This ought to be a bipartisan effort to put standards back where Evers had them as State Supt. Why wasn’t it? 🤔
Parents overestimate student achievement, underestimate spending
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