Weekly Planner: Statewide Test Results & Another Teacher Survey Set For Release

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State superintendent Tony Bennett (center) at a community meeting in Indianapolis.

Coming Up This Week

• Tuesday: Indiana Department of Education officials will publicly release the results of the ISTEP+ exam, the state’s benchmark standardized test for Grades 3-8. StateImpact will have complete coverage and sortable, searchable results.
• Tuesday: Think tank Education Sector will release a survey of teacher attitudes. The last time a teacher survey came out, it set off a wave of media coverage about teachers being “beaten down” by the current directions in education policy. Will the same thing happen again?
• Thursday: State superintendent Tony Bennett will speak and take questions from community members at Gary’s Ivy Tech campus. The event is being put on by the Gary Chamber of Commerce.
• Thursday: Indiana State University’s trustees hold their annual organizational meeting. 

What We’re Working On

• Western Governors University — a pet project of Gov. Mitch Daniels — has been in Indiana for two years now and graduated about 300 students. We’re looking at what kind of jobs graduates are getting with their WGU degrees.
• As mentioned above, we’ll have full coverage of the state’s ISTEP+ results when they come out Tuesday morning at 10 a.m.

What Do You Want To Hear?

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