Parents don’t want ‘to just sit and read through state statutes’

A three-year-old Wisconsin law requiring schools to inform parents when their students are struggling with reading is going unenforced in far too many districts, leading many learners to fall behind state-mandated reading benchmarks, according to literacy advocates.

In some places parents are not being properly notified of either their children’s struggles or remediation plans or both. In other places, remediation appears to not be meeting the standards specified in the law. The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, meanwhile, is not providing clear guidance, let alone oversight.

“I think that no one is really checking up on (the schools), no one is really monitoring the implementation (of the law),” said the head of Forward Literacy, Katie Kasubaski.

One mother of children with special needs described guidance materials from the DPI as being “clear as mud.”

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