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Act 20 screener data shows statewide literacy challenges; New Berlin outperforms demographic prediction
Summary
A researcher presenting Act 20 screener data told the New Berlin School Board that more than one-third of Wisconsin students fell below the early-literacy threshold at least once, but the School District of New Berlin performed substantially better than demographic models predicted.
Will Flanders, research director at the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, told the School District of New Berlin board that the new statewide literacy screeners required under Act 20 show widespread early-literacy concerns while revealing notable district variation. "If you look statewide across the board, over a third of students at least once fell below" the designated percentile, Flanders said, a level that would trigger mandatory intervention.
Flanders explained the screeners were administered midyear and in spring for the first year and that future years will include…
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