{"id":16369,"date":"2025-04-28T23:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T23:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=16369"},"modified":"2025-04-29T00:01:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T00:01:20","slug":"despite-evers-year-of-the-kid-government-education-is-failing-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=16369","title":{"rendered":"Despite Evers\u2019 \u201cYear of the Kid,\u201d Government Education is Failing Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2025\/04\/28\/despite-evers-year-of-the-kid-government-education-is-failing-them\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=despite-evers-year-of-the-kid-government-education-is-failing-them\">https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2025\/04\/28\/despite-evers-year-of-the-kid-government-education-is-failing-them\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=despite-evers-year-of-the-kid-government-education-is-failing-them<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I feel like I\u2019ve been shouting about this for decades and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maciverinstitute.com\/news\/wisconsin-latest-test-scores-show-kids-continue-to-struggle\">nobody in government has ever expressed real concern<\/a>. The government-education complex is just about funneling gobs of money to political-favored groups of people\u2026 the kids be damned.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Department of Public Instruction on Monday released the scores from several years of the state\u2019s Forward Exam, which is the state test taken mostly by kids in elementary school and junior high.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Forward Exam, revised extensively and administered during the 2023-24 school year, was updated to align with newer, revised Wisconsin Academic Standards in English language arts and mathematics,\u201d DPI said in its announcement. \u201cGiven the differences between the previous and updated Forward Exam ELA and mathematics assessments, the trend data should be interpreted with caution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DPI\u2019s release includes hundreds of pages of school-by-school test results, but it does not include any overall numbers. Parents would need to look for their kids\u2019 school, broken down by year, and then look to compare those scores with earlier years.<\/p>\n<p>Will Flanders, an education expert for the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, said any parents who do that will see the Wisconsin school kids continue to fall behind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo the surprise of no one, [the test scores] reveal that student proficiency is still down since the COVID 19 pandemic. Proficiency is about 3.61% lower in third grade reading statewide than the 2018-19 school year,\u201d Flanders wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>He also said the test scores show the DPI lowered the bar for kids.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"et_social_bottom_trigger\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2025\/04\/28\/despite-evers-year-of-the-kid-government-education-is-failing-them\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=despite-evers-year-of-the-kid-government-education-is-failing-them I feel like I\u2019ve been shouting about this for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boots-sabers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16369","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16370,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16369\/revisions\/16370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}