MADISON, Wis. (WRN) — Legislation that would reset how the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction measures standardized test scores is headed to the desk of Tony Evers.
State Senate author, Watertown Republican John Jagler, anticipates the Democratic governor will veto the bill.
“You know, there was some criticism that the legislature is injecting itself into the process. I think that’s what he said in when he said he was going to veto it. We’re not injecting ourselves – we’re going back to his standards,” Jagler said.
Evers initially said the new standards adopted by DPI last year should have been publicly vetted, but that he’d likely veto the bill.
The new DPI metrics don’t align with scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, test, and make it more difficult to compare this year’s Forward Exam scores with previous years.