Seattle Times: State’s Student Test Scores Mostly Unchanged in 2013

In The News

August 26, 2013

By Linda Shaw

Washington students made little or no overall improvement this year on state tests in reading, writing, math and science, making small gains in some grades and subjects, and losing ground in others.

So state Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn took a longer view.

In a news conference Monday, he stressed that students have made a lot of progress over the past decade, and could make even bigger gains if state lawmakers, as ordered by the Washington Supreme Court, continue to raise the amount the state spends on public schools.

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