Date of enactment:
2025 Assembly Bill 1 Date of publication*:
2025 WISCONSIN ACT
AN ACT to renumber and amend 115.385 (1) (b); to amend 115.385 (1) (c); to create 115.385 (1) (b) 2m. and
118.30 (1j) of the statutes; relating to: changes to the educational assessment program and the school and school
district accountability report.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in sen-
ate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 115.385 (1) (b) of the statutes is
renumbered 115.385 (1) (b) 1m., and 115.385 (1) (b)
1m. (intro.), as renumbered, is amended to read:
115.385 (1) (b) 1m. (intro.) An Subject to subd. 2m.,
an index system to identify a school[s level of per-
formance and a school district[s level of improvement
and to annually assign to each school and school district
one of the following performance categories:
SECTION 2. 115.385 (1) (b) 2m. of the statutes is
created to read:
115.385 (1) (b) 2m. For the school and school
district accountability reports published for the school
year beginning on the July 1 immediately preceding the
effective date of this subdivision .... [LRB inserts date],
and for each school year thereafter, the department shall
use the same cut scores and the same score ranges for
the performance categories under subd. 1m. that the
department used for the report published under this
section in the 2019-20 school year.
SECTION 3. 115.385 (1) (c) of the statutes is
amended to read:
115.385 (1) (c) A qualitative definition for For each
of the 5 performance categories in par. (b) 1m., the same
qualitative definition that the department used for the
report published under this section in the 2019-20
school year.
SECTION 4. 118.30 (1j) of the statutes is created to
read:
118.30 (1j) For examinations administered under
this section or 20 USC 6311 (b) (2) in the school year
beginning on the July 1 immediately preceding the
effective date of this subsection .... [LRB inserts date],
and in each school year thereafter, the department shall
do all of the following:
(a) For examinations in English language arts and
mathematics administered to pupils in grades 3 to 8, use
cut scores, score ranges, and pupil performance
categories that are aligned to the cut scores, score
ranges, and pupil performance categories set by the Na-
tional Assessment of Educational Progress for the same
subject and the same grade.
(b) For examinations in English, reading, and
mathematics administered to pupils in grades 9 to 11,
use the same cut scores, the same score ranges, and the
same pupil performance categories that the department
used to evaluate the same examinations administered in
the 2021-22 school year, including the following termi-
nology for the pupil performance categories:
* Section 991.11, WISCONSIN STATUTES: Effective date of acts. XEvery act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the gov-
ernor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication.Y
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1. Below Basic.
2. Basic.
3. Proficient.
4. Advanced.
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