Mps school5/17/2023 ![]() Juniors had some incentive to take the ACT test, still being used for admission to some colleges and universities, but that incentive was decreasing. On the high school level, seniors could return as well as those students who were in danger of failing one or more classes. Milwaukee elementary students had just returned to school, but many elected to continue to learn remotely. ![]() In Milwaukee, that meant about 44% of elementary students took assessment tests, 43% of high school juniors, and an extremely low percentage of younger high school students, only 15-19% on other tests.Īll assessments had to be taken in-person, in school. While DOEd did not exempt states from conducting assessments, it did waive the requirement that 95% of students be tested. Perhaps the most glaring limitation of the report card was the percentage of Milwaukee students that even took the tests. Stewart explained the findings through a PowerPoint presentation to the board. And even here, the new report card uses different standards and measurement procedures. No Wisconsin school report cards were issued for the 2019/20 school year because most school districts were in virtual, online education during the time period when tests had to be given in-person, at school.Ī comparison of the 2020/21 report card could only be done by skipping a year to the 2018/19 report card. Department of Education (DOEd) along with many other states across the nation.īut the DOEd held the line and granted no waivers for this year the way it did the previous year. In fact, Wisconsin didn’t even want to issue report cards for this last school year. There was no jumping for joy at the latest findings.Īll knew this year’s report cards are highly flawed. Melanie Stewart, matter-of-factly presented the latest data. 9 Milwaukee school board committee meeting, the director of Research, Assessment, and Data, Dr. The new score suggests Milwaukee schools have slowly climbed from the bottom rankings to somewhere near respectability. This ranking was a far cry from two years ago when its district report card was only “Meets Few Expectations” and the 2013-14 district report card where MPS ranking was “Fails to Meet Expectations.” Photo by Mariiana Tzotcheva.įor the first time in history, Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) reached the acceptable report card standard of “Meets Expectations.” That was the finding of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction’s report cards for school districts in November 2021.
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