MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin students will take a new kind of standardized test next month. The online test is expected to be more rigorous than the traditional pencil-and-paper exam it’s replacing. But a technical glitch means school districts will get a scaled back version instead of a more complex system that isn’t working properly. As a result, the Department of Public Instruction says, it won’t pay the full $11.1 million cost and it will negotiate a new price with the test vendor and creators. The state has paid about $1.2 million so far. The test is linked to the Common Core State Standards and tests students in third through eighth grades in math and English. DPI notified school districts Wednesday that they’ll get the scaled back version.
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photo: waupun mayor rohn bishop The Waupun Common Council has postponed action on wage increases for paid on call firefighters and elected officials to get more public input. The council discussed the matter, sometimes heated, at their meeting this week and will take up the issue again at their April 8th meeting. If […]
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A house fire near New Holstein claimed the life of a child. Shortly after 2am Wednesday firefighters were called to the scene on Honeymoon Hill Road near County Road T. A child in the home was pronounced dead at a hospital. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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