Movers and shakers with a stake in Wisconsin education met this week in Madison, ostensibly to begin creating a method to ensure state students are college- or career-ready when they graduate from high school. Given the facts that student needs are rising ? poverty rates across Wisconsin have been rapidly increasing, with about 40 percent of schoolchildren now eligible for free or reduced lunch ? while financial support for schools at both the state and federal level is falling, they have a tall order in front of them.
Among the 29 members of the School Accountability Design Team are Adam Gamoran, head of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the UW-Madison, and UW System President Kevin Reilly.