According to Forward Literacy, however, some 150 Wisconsin school districts and charter schools appear to be failing in the execution of early literacy remediation plans, which lay out exactly how parents will be notified and what steps will be taken to help students.
While schools are supposed to alert parents when new testing data is released, executive director Katie Kasubaski said the information is often merely uploaded to schools’ internal grading systems. Often, she said, parents either can’t access these or aren’t taught how. This, she said, leads parents to go uninformed about key deficiencies in their child’s education.
Instead of being instructed on how to find their students’ data, Kasubaski told Badger Institute “some parents are unaware.”
“Parents were technically notified but just didn’t know to look in the system for the scores,” she said.
Even the scope of how much information parents are missing isn’t clear. Kasubaski compiled a list identifying nearly 150 school districts and some charter schools as not meeting the law’s requirement that they publicly post their early literacy remediation plans detailing how they ensure that struggling readers progress toward reading proficiency and communicate that information to families.
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Early Literacy Screener Map.
3,887 Madison 4 year old to third grade students scored lower than 75% of the students in the national comparison group.
Madison taxpayers have long supported far above average k-12 tax & $pending. This despite our long term, disastrous reading results. May, 2026: 7,095 Staff for 25,003 students; $pending > $26k per student!
Madison Schools: More $, No Accountability
The taxpayer funded Madison School District long used Reading Recovery…
The data clearly indicate that being able to read is not a requirement for graduation at (Madison) East, especially if you are black or Hispanic”
A.B.T.: “Ain’t been taught.”
My Question to Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers on Teacher Mulligans and our Disastrous Reading Results
2017: West High Reading Interventionist Teacher’s Remarks to the School Board on Madison’s Disastrous Reading Results
Madison’s taxpayer supported K-12 school district, despite spending far more than most, has long tolerated disastrous reading results.
“An emphasis on adult employment”
Wisconsin Public Policy Forum Madison School District Report[PDF]
WEAC: $1.57 million for Four Wisconsin Senators
Friday Afternoon Veto: Governor Evers Rejects AB446/SB454; an effort to address our long term, disastrous reading results
Booked, but can’t read (Madison): functional literacy, National citizenship and the new face of Dred Scott in the age of mass incarceration.
When A Stands for Average: Students at the UW-Madison School of Education Receive Sky-High Grades. How Smart is That?