09/13/12 All Public High School Juniors Would Take ACT in 2014-15 Under Evers Proposal
Superior Telegram (WI) (09/13/12) DeFour, MatthewWisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers has proposed a $7 million budget initiative that calls for all public high school juniors to take the ACT college admissions test and replace the Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Examination (WKCE) with other ACT tests to measure college and career readiness. If approved, ninth-graders would take the ACT EXPLORE assessment, 10th graders would take the ACT PLAN test, and 11th graders would take the ACT and the WorkKeys tests beginning in the 2014-15 school year. The state will cover the costs of the ACT test, unless students wish to take it a second time, and rural students would have better access to the ACT because all schools would be trained to administer it. "We need to give our students and their families better resources to plan for study and work after high school," says Evers. "It makes sense to use the ACT to fulfill state and federal testing requirements at the high school level with an exam package that provides so much more than the WKCE: college and career readiness assessments and a college admissions test score."
