Pritzker celebrates ‘report card,’ but lawmaker says there’s no reason to – Center Square

Wirepoints president Ted Dabrowski said Illinois’ 8th grade students outperforming national averages in both reading and math on “the nation’s report card” is not the metric to be looking at. “The right metric is to look and see how many kids are reading and that points at a disaster for Illinois,” said Dabrowski. “It's a bad thing to compare to the national average when the national average has been collapsing, some of the worst scores in a long time.”