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Assembly, Senate Still at Odds Over School Accountability
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | April 16, 2015
From WisPolitics:
The Assembly and Senate authors of school accountability bills continue to be at odds.
Sen. Paul Farrow, lead author of his chamber’s version and chair of the Education Reform and Government Operations Committee, introduced a substitute amendment yesterday to his version of the bill. Farrow, R-Pewaukee, said it includes no sanctions and would give DPI six months to come up with a new formula for the report cards that would be used to determine which schools are underperforming.
Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt, whose version of the bill includes sanctions for failing schools, said the latest Senate version has no chance of passing the Assembly Education Committee he chairs.
“Not only does this bill do little to help failing or struggling schools but it actually removes requirements to help them improve,” said Thiesfeldt, R-Fond du Lac. “Furthermore, this bill does not address standardized testing, educational standards, waivers for small schools and provides no prescription of the Superintendent of Public Instruction’s job duties. We ultimately have a status quo bill with accountability in name only.”
Farrow has said he does not support the Assembly version of the bill, and the guv has called on lawmakers to approve an accountability package that provides parents information on school performance but no sanctions.
See the substitute amendment here.
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