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Parkway approves 2025–26 assessment plan; board OKs ACT and AP exam purchases
Summary
The board approved the district’s Comprehensive Assessment Plan for 2025–26 and authorized purchases for ACT testing (estimated $98,000 from the assessment budget) and AP exam funding (estimated $275,500 from high school activity accounts); the assessment plan emphasizes teacher-led assessments and data consolidation via Tableau and EduCLIMBER.
The Parkway School District Board of Education approved the district’s 2025–26 comprehensive assessment plan and authorized related testing purchases on June 11.
Carter Snow, director of assessment and continuous improvement, told the board the plan emphasizes a balanced system centered on teacher-provided assessments to give real-time classroom data, while keeping college- and career-readiness measures in place. Snow said district assessment data will be consolidated for classroom access using a data warehouse with Tableau visualization and a newly adopted EduCLIMBER tool for at-risk analysis.
Snow also addressed the status of the NWEA reading fluency assessment at the state level. He said the state originally removed NWEA from its approved vendor list after Parkway purchased it, but the state has allowed continued use while vendor and state complete another approval process; the district is monitoring the issue and reviewing alternatives if needed. "We are monitoring that very closely," Snow said.
Following the assessment plan approval, the board approved purchases for the ACT (state/district testing for juniors and PreACT for sophomores) with an estimated cost of $98,000 to be paid from the 2026 assessment program budget, and AP exam funding estimated at $275,500 to come from Parkway High School activity accounts. The board voted to authorize ordering materials and scoring services for these assessments; the motion carried 7–0.
Snow said the assessment plan will help teachers identify students needing additional math or reading support and enable earlier interventions through the district’s data systems. The administration will proceed with the purchases subject to the board’s authorization and continue monitoring vendor approvals required by the state.
