(Watertown) At the Capitol, a Republican bill would reverse state Superintendent Jill Underly’s overhaul of how the Department of Public Instruction measures student achievement on state tests. Watertown Senator John Jagler co-authored the legislation.
“I think we need to have as high standards as possible…I don’t think we should be lowering them…that’s not my quote, that’s a quote from Governor Evers,” says Jagler. “It was a mistake, [Evers] said, to lower the standards. The words were said by Governor Evers after the Department of Public Instruction decided to lower our academic standards for our K12 students.”
Jagler says as the state moves out of COVID, it is more important than ever that they are able to see how the educational system is or is not advancing.
“Moving away from the national standards set by NAEP only compounded the problem,” says Jagler. “We have no apples-to-apples comparison when it comes to how we’re doing with other states or our neighboring states.”
The bill would reset state report card standards to levels set in 2019-20, align grades 3-8 with national standards, and restore high school testing standards to levels set in the 2021-22 school year.
–Courtesy of WRN
