{"id":7122,"date":"2023-11-15T18:11:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T19:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=7122"},"modified":"2023-11-15T20:10:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T20:10:14","slug":"education-reformers-question-wisconsin-schools-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=7122","title":{"rendered":"Education Reformers Question Wisconsin Schools\u2019 Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-schools\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-schools\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/dpi-wisconsin-150x150-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"dpi wisconsin\" title=\"Wisconsin schools\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(The Center Square) \u2013 Despite test scores that show nearly 60% of students in Wisconsin schools cannot read or do math at grade level, more than 90% of school districts in the state meet the state\u2019s expectations.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Public Instruction recently released its school and school district report cards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStatewide, achievement improved from 2021-22 to 2022-23, though for many schools and districts, 2022-23 achievement performance is lower than pre-pandemic levels,\u201d DPI said in a statement. \u201cReport card achievement scores, overall scores and ratings may have decreased despite upward trending achievement performance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of the 378 public school districts in the state that received a report card this year, 357 met or exceeded expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Quinton Klabon with the Institute for Reforming Government questioned that.<\/p>\n<p>He told The Center Square some schools met expectations while having 12% of their students able to do math at grade level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is a 3-star school district? It&#8217;s Green Bay, apparently, where hundreds fell below grade level since the pandemic and only one-quarter of students are college-ready. It&#8217;s Milwaukee, surprisingly, where a tiny recovery allowed it to be rated \u2018meets expectations.\u2019 Whose expectations are met with 16% and 12% reading and math proficiencies?\u201d Klabon added.<\/p>\n<p>Will Flanders with the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty also questioned the expectations from DPI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite proficiency of 17% in reading and 11% in math, MPS is rated as \u2018meets expectations\u2019 on the state report card,\u201d Flanders said. \u201cThe soft bigotry of low expectations has never been more true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Klabon said the school report cards look worse when you factor in Wisconsin\u2019s worst-in-the-nation racial learning gap.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWisconsin has the most shameful racial achievement gap in the country,\u201d Klabon said. \u201cEven with grade inflation, 53% of predominantly Black schools are 1 or 2 stars. Thirty-one percent of predominantly Hispanic schools are, and rural schools serving Indigenous kids also struggle. We need to expect more from the adults in charge: go all in on this summer&#8217;s statewide reading reforms, fund choice schools fairly and hold higher expectations on the state report cards so parents can make good decisions for their family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Klabon did say the local report cards show the need for, and the success of, school choice \u2013 particularly in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeventeen of the top 20 schools in Milwaukee are choice schools,\u201d Klabon added. \u201cEvery student deserves a 5-star school. School choice is essential to making that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-schools\/ (The Center Square) \u2013 Despite test scores that show&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":7124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7122","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\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7125,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7122\/revisions\/7125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}