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MPS presents 2025–26 assessment plan; union says added non‑mandated testing increases classroom burden
Summary
District staff described a streamlined assessment plan for 2025–26 emphasizing I‑Ready, reduced redundancy and embedded progress monitoring; Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association raised concerns that the district omitted non‑mandated local assessments from the slide and that testing time has increased dramatically in some schools.
Milwaukee Public Schools staff presented an overview of the district’s balanced assessment system for the 2025–26 school year and described several changes intended to reduce redundancy and better align diagnostics to instruction. During public comment, the president of the Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association (MTEA) said district slides undercounted local, non‑mandated testing and urged immediate meet‑and‑confer with the union.
Dr. Natalie Collins, director of research, assessment and data, and Dr. Gabby (Bell) Jimenez, academic superintendent for literacy, told the Committee on Student Achievement and School Innovation that the district’s assessment system combines formative checks, diagnostics and summative measures to guide instruction and meet federal, state and board requirements. Collins said district calculations show a district‑wide average of 563 minutes (about 9.4 hours) of required testing per student for 2025–26, representing about 0.83% of…
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