KSDE ignores fundamental questions about the 2025 state assessment test - The Sentinel

KSDE ignores fundamental questions about the 2025 state assessment test - The Sentinel

It’s a simple question: Will the new state assessment measure mastery of reading and math skills? Yet Kansas Education Commissioner Randy Watson and the consultants hired to prepare it refuse to say. Watson also declined to respond to other questions we sent recently. The question was prompted by comments Dr. Karla Egan made at the May 13 State School Board meeting. Egan founded EdMetrics, the consulting firm working with the Kansas Department o…