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AGR Trailer Bill Clears Assembly Committee
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | September 11, 2015
Yesterday, Assembly Bill 287, a trailer bill to fix a couple issues with 2015 Wisconsin Act 53 (Achievement Gap Reduction program), cleared the Assembly Education Committee on a 14-0 vote. The SAA supports AB 287.
Under the bill, an AGR contract must require a school board to implement one or more of the strategies described below in each class in each participating grade at each participating school. Under current law, the strategies described below related to class size and tutoring must be implemented in one or more classes in one or more participating grades at each participating school and the instructional coaching strategy described below must be provided for one or more teachers of one or more participating grades at each participating school. Under current law, a school board that enters into an AGR contract must implement one or more of the following strategies:
- Reduce the class size to 18 pupils or, if a classroom has at least two regular
classroom teachers, to 30 pupils; and provide professional development on small
group instruction. - Provide instructional coaching for teachers.
- Provide one-to-one tutoring to pupils who struggle with reading or math.
This bill also delays the first annual evaluation of the AGR program by one school year. Under the bill, DPI must first arrange for an annual evaluation of the AGR program in the 2018-19 school year.
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