{"id":14869,"date":"2025-01-09T17:49:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T18:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=14869"},"modified":"2025-01-21T17:06:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T17:06:37","slug":"new-legislation-introduced-represents-positive-step-forward-for-reform-at-dpi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=14869","title":{"rendered":"New Legislation Introduced Represents Positive Step Forward for Reform at DPI"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The News: <\/span><\/b>The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) endorsed new legislation (<\/span>LRB-0976<\/span><\/a>) by Senator John Jagler (R-Watertown) and Representative Bob Wittke (R-Caledonia) to reverse the years-long process of lowering academic and performance standards by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI). WILL believes these changes have been made to hide declining academic performance of Wisconsin schools since 2020.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Quotes: <\/span><\/b>WILL Research Director, Will Flanders PhD, stated, \u201cThe bill represents a critical step in restoring the ability of parents, policymakers, and taxpayers to assess how well Wisconsin\u2019s schools are doing across the public, charter, and private voucher sectors. Make no mistake, since 2020, DPI has essentially changed the definition of success to mislead the public about stagnating academic performance in Wisconsin schools.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Additional Background: <\/span><\/b>Beginning in the 2020-21 school year, DPI has made a number of changes to Wisconsin\u2019s academic accountability standards that have made them far less rigorous.\u00a0These changes were all made unilaterally by the Department without any input from the legislature or Governor. The key changes were:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n