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KSDE defends new 2025 cut scores and concordance table as alignment with ACT/NAEP; lawmakers call it "moving the goalposts"
Summary
KSDE officials said new 2025 assessments and cut scores were set by Kansas educators to better align with ACT/NAEP benchmarks and provided a concordance table linking 2024 and 2025 scaled scores; some legislators, including Representative Steele, criticized the change as shifting standards.
Dr. Lehi Nugent, newly in her role at KSDE, and other agency staff explained the 2025 state assessment updates and the process used to reset cut scores. Nugent said English language arts standards were updated in 2023 to align with the science of reading and national benchmarks, and Kansas educators convened to set new performance‑level cut scores.
"The scores were set by educators in Kansas," Nugent said, describing a weeklong…
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