Tag: state assessment
USD 497 Lawrence consciously deceives school board and parents about reading proficiency
According to the Lawrence Journal-World, USD 497 Chief Academic Officer Patrick Kelly announced at the June 10 board meeting that…
New state assessment at odds with Legislature’s improvement targets
Deputy Education Commissioner Dr. Ben Proctor revealed that a new state assessment plan will be given to students during the…
Gov. Kelly, KASB gaslight parents with 2023 student achievement claims
Gaslight is a term used by some mental health practitioners to clinically describe a form of prolonged coercive control in…
Claiming Level 2 is on track for college/career is dumbing down standards
Some education officials in Kansas are trying to make parents believe that scores in Level 2 on the state assessment…
A+ Team gets an F for honesty
The A+ Team, a slate of four candidates for the Blue Valley school board, posted a social media ad claiming that…
Miserable outcomes indicate KSDE should abandon “Kansans Can” and get back to academics
The Kansas Department of Education introduced its current gimmick – “Kansans Can” – in 2016 with great fanfare. Instead of…
Recommendations to improve achievement by changing adult behaviors
Testimony submitted this week to the Special Committee on Education crystalized three unfortunate realities: (1) student achievement is low and…
Wichita superintendent Kelly Bielefeld covers up poor student achievement
USD 259 superintendent Kelly Bielefeld spoke to the Wichita Pachyderm Club recently, and like his predecessors, he went out of…
2023 state assessment results reflect Einstein’s definition of insanity
The preliminary 2023 state assessment results once again demonstrate that student achievement will remain stubbornly low until the Legislature steps…
KS Reflector columnist defends bureaucracy with false achievement claims
A guest columnist for the Kansas Reflector wants you to believe that the public school bureaucracy is producing high achievement,…
KS education commissioner claims ‘proficient’ is a made-up term
Kansas education commissioner Randy Watson earlier this week told the State Board of Education that “proficient is a made-up term…
Reading, math proficiency plummet on 2022 NAEP assessment
Reading and math proficiency fell to historic lows on the 2022 NAEP test, with just a third of 4th-grade proficient…
Seaman MS gets a national award despite low, declining achievement
In yet another example of education officials de-emphasizing academic performance, Seaman Middle School is one of 12 schools nationwide to…
A-F Grading of Kansas schools: just one A but 80 Fs
Based on the 2021 state assessment scores, only one public school in Kansas earned an “A” on Kansas Policy Institute’s…
KSDE conceals low, declining student achievement
The Kansas Legislature’s Special Committee on Education held a hearing on student achievement this week, and the message from the…
Schools ignore legal requirement to conduct needs assessments
State law requires local school boards to conduct annual building needs assessments of each school as part of the budget…
More student achievement deception in Gardner-Edgerton
Parents in the Gardner-Edgerton school district in Johnson County are being horribly misled about student achievement. The only question is…
Kansas City Star education deceit throws kids under the bus
The Kansas City Star is notorious for false and misleading claims (see here, here, and here), but even for them,…
KBOE President Jim Porter deceives on student achievement (again)
State Board of Education President Jim Porter made a conscious attempt to deceive members of the House K-12 Budget Committee…