{"id":13228,"date":"2024-10-08T19:55:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T19:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=13228"},"modified":"2024-10-08T19:58:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T19:58:39","slug":"from-the-center-square-report-wisconsin-public-school-leaders-warned-against-changing-state-test-scores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=13228","title":{"rendered":"FROM THE CENTER SQUARE: Report: Wisconsin public school leaders warned against changing state test scores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/report-wisconsin-public-school-leaders-warned-against-changing-state-test-scores\/\">https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/report-wisconsin-public-school-leaders-warned-against-changing-state-test-scores\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/center-square-piece.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>(The Center Square) \u2013\u00a0A new report says Wisconsin\u2019s public school bureaucrats have been warning for nearly a year the state\u2019s new test scores will make some schools look much better than they really are.<\/p>\n<p>The Institute for Reforming Government poured over more than a year\u2019s worth of open records and email requests between State Superintendent Jill Underly and her staffers at the Department of Public Instruction.<\/p>\n<p>Those\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Testing-Our-Patience-Executive-Summary.pdf\"><strong>emails and documents<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0show Underly pushed to change Wisconsin\u2019s test scores so schools in the state look better compared to schools in other states, despite warnings from DPI that changing the scores \u2013 but not improving reading or math skills \u2013\u00a0would only widen Wisconsin\u2019s achievement gaps.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/wisconsin\/article_0b45de5a-84e2-11ef-98db-cf9fa1a05a5c.html\"><em>Read the full piece here.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/report-wisconsin-public-school-leaders-warned-against-changing-state-test-scores\/ (The Center Square) \u2013\u00a0A new report says Wisconsin\u2019s public&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":13230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-institute-for-reforming-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13228","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\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13231,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13228\/revisions\/13231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}