Illinois Considers Lowering Scores Students Need to be Considered Proficient on State Exams

Illinois Considers Lowering Scores Students Need to be Considered Proficient on State Exams

This article was originally published in Chalkbeat.Illinois education officials are considering lowering the scores students need to get to be classified as proficient in a subject on a state standardized test. They say the current benchmarks are too high and the results often don’t accurately reflect whether high school students are college and career ready. “Our system unfairly mislabels students as ‘not proficient’ when other data — such as s…