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Interim NDDPI official: small post‑pandemic recovery in proficiency; students with disabilities show relative stability

Legislative Interim Committee on Special Education / Education Policy · May 6, 2026
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Summary

Interim NDDPI assistant superintendent Stanley Shower Jr. told a legislative committee that state assessment data show modest recovery after pandemic‑era drops and that students with disabilities have experienced smaller year‑to‑year variance than students without disabilities. Lawmakers asked for additional cohort and disaggregated views.

Interim assistant state superintendent Stanley Shower Jr. of the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction presented the committee with the first year of NDAplus operational results and multi‑year views combining NDSA, NDAA and ACT data. He told members the state’s participation rate on summative instruments typically runs about 95 percent and that NDSA test volumes are large enough to show reliable patterns statewide.

Shower said the data show a pandemic‑era decline followed by a modest recovery in many grades and subjects. “We saw an increase of about 2%…

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