Wyoming educators: More to solution than just accountability

Accountability alone won’t get lawmakers the results they want from the state’s well-funded public school system, educators said Monday before a select committee given the task of creating a state school accountability system.

The proposed system of evaluating schools on test scores and graduation rate does not provide schools the support necessary to improve in the areas measured, according to members of an advisory committee to the Select Committee on Statewide Education Accountability. A 2011 law requires the committee to recommend or draft legislation outlining how schools will be measured and held accountable for the Legislature’s large monetary investment in education.

By JACKIE BORCHARDT Casper Star-Tribune

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