{"id":11065,"date":"2024-06-06T18:41:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T18:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=11065"},"modified":"2024-06-06T19:02:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T19:02:10","slug":"will-condemns-dpis-ridiculous-attempt-to-disguise-lackluster-student-achievement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=11065","title":{"rendered":"WILL Condemns DPI\u2019s Ridiculous Attempt to Disguise Lackluster Student Achievement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\/will-condemns-dpis-ridiculous-attempt-to-disguise-lackluster-student-achievement\/\">https:\/\/will-law.org\/will-condemns-dpis-ridiculous-attempt-to-disguise-lackluster-student-achievement\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"et_pb_section et_pb_section_0 et_section_regular\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_0\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_3_4 et_pb_column_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_0  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<p>6.6.24<\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">The News<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">: The Wisconsin Institute for Law &amp; Liberty (WILL) strongly condemns the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) for changing the terminology regarding student performance as well as once again considering changing the cut points for proficiency on the state\u2019s Forward Exam.\u00a0This represents a blatant effort to conceal lackluster academic performance for Wisconsin students. WILL believes these changes will cloud parent\u2019s ability to best understand their child\u2019s academic performance and allow schools to avoid accountability for their failures.\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Quotes: <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">WILL Research Director Will Flanders urges, \u201cInstead of focusing on declining academic achievement in Wisconsin, the Department of Public Instruction is working to hide the problem. Unfortunately, changing standards for political correctness and to avoid accountability will hurt students today, tomorrow, and long into the future. DPI should prioritize addressing more pressing issues, such as implementing reading reforms which will raise student outcomes and helping to resolve the mess in Milwaukee Public Schools.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">The Changes from DPI:\u00a0 <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">DPI announced they would be changing the terminology of<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\"> student performance categories to as follows:\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u201cBelow Basic\u201d will now change to \u201cDeveloping.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u201cBasic\u201d will now change to \u201cApproaching.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u201cProficient\u201d will now change to \u201cMeeting.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u201cAdvanced\u201d will remain the same.\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">These labels are not designed to spare the feelings of the students who are not performing as expected, as DPI has alluded. Rather, they intend to prevent families from recognizing the ineptitude of the schools that fail to help students reach the standards required for the workforce or college.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0DPI is also holding a meeting June 11-14 to redetermine the cut points for the Forward Exam, which can impact what category schools and districts fall into on the state report card.\u00a0\u00a0Previous changes to comparable cut points have occurred in recent years\u2014making report card ratings incomparable over time. As a condition for participation in this meeting, participating teachers must sign a non-disclosure agreement.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Read More:\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"5\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\/wisconsins-state-report-card-in-urgent-need-of-reform\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Wisconsin\u2019s Report Cards in Urgent Need of Reform<\/span><\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"6\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ApplestoApples2024-FINAL-web.pdf\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Apples to Apples: The Definitive Look at Test Scores in Milwaukee and Wisconsin for 2023<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_4 et_pb_column_1  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et-last-child\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_team_member et_pb_team_member_0 clearfix  et_pb_text_align_center et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_team_member_image et-waypoint et_pb_animation_off\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"617\" height=\"980\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/WILL_Flanders_Color_002_WEB_980x617_100ppi_Sharpened.jpg\" alt=\"Will Flanders, PHD\" class=\"wp-image-9280\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_team_member_description\">\n<h4 class=\"et_pb_module_header\">Will Flanders, PHD<\/h4>\n<p class=\"et_pb_member_position\">Research Director<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Flanders@will-law.org<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\/will-condemns-dpis-ridiculous-attempt-to-disguise-lackluster-student-achievement\/\">WILL Condemns DPI\u2019s Ridiculous Attempt to Disguise Lackluster Student Achievement<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\">Wisconsin Institute for Law &amp; Liberty<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/will-law.org\/will-condemns-dpis-ridiculous-attempt-to-disguise-lackluster-student-achievement\/ 6.6.24 The News: The Wisconsin Institute for Law &amp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11067,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11065\/revisions\/11067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}