At-risk students, including those with disabilities, who are homeless, and economically disadvantaged, continue to struggle to meet statewide proficiency percentages on standardized tests.

The state released ISAT scores last week. Overall, this year’s results showed that 53.2% of test-takers were proficient in ELA and 42.3% were proficient in math and 41.7% were proficient in science. None of the statewide scores changed by more than half a percentage point from last year .

Students who fall into marginalized or at-risk groups continued to fall below the statewide proficiency percentages. Top performing districts tended to have a higher percentage of white students and a lower percentage of students with disabilities and from low-income households. The opposite was true for low-perfo

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