Last year, (taxpayer funded Wisconsin) DPI changed Forward Exam standards-lowering the bar for proficiency in WI. Curiously after the election, DPI released data that “unrigs” the results to show what trends would have been. We put that data into district-by-district graph. 🧵
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14% reading proficiency in Beloit on the Forward Exam turned into 22% through standards changes.
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Proficiency before & after DPI changes
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Did taxpayer funded Wisconsin DPI Superintendent Underly Juice Test Scores for Reelection?
notes and links on Incumbent DPI Superintendent Jill Underly (back story).
Underly supports eliminating our one elementary teacher content knowledge requirement, the Foundations of Reading (FORT)
Civics: Why and how was Jill Underly Re-elected? (a bit of uniparty analysis as well). And.
My Question to Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers on Teacher Mulligans and our Disastrous Reading Results