Students expected to lose nearly a year of learning while attending school during the pandemic
Students across Wisconsin are struggling to stay on track with school during this pandemic. School attendance is already down in southeast Wisconsin, and one study expects by the end of the school year children will be a year behind in learning.
and last updated 2021-01-21 23:33:59-05
MILWAUKEE â Students across Wisconsin are struggling to stay on track with school during this pandemic. School attendance is already down in southeast Wisconsin, and one study expects by the end of the school year children will be a year behind in learning.
Created: January 21, 2021 05:47 PM
A new report out from Wisconsin public schools this week shows just how many students were secluded or physically restrained during the last school year.
This is the first year schools were required to submit that data to the state.
Nearly half of all Wisconsin schools reported at least one incident where either seclusion or physical restraint was used on a student during the 2019-2020 school year.
Students with disabilities, meaning students who could be in special education and have an individualized education program, made up 82% of all seclusion incidents and 77% of all physical restraint incidents.
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More than half of Wisconsin schools restrained or isolated students to control their behavior during the last school year, according to data released by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) this week.
The data, which was collected because of changes to the state law on restraint and seclusion, also shows that elementary school students and students with disabilities were more likely to be restrained or secluded. The 30 schools that reported the most seclusion incidents were all elementary schools.
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The Lincoln Academy, Beloitâs new public charter school, will open this fall with a sixth gradeâspace for 50 more childrenâto ensure students are prepared for higher-level courses in high school.
The new school, which is still under construction at 608 Henry Ave., will start enrolling students Feb. 1.
Original plans called for the academy to have 4K through second grades and seventh through ninth grades in its first year. The Kids First Board of Directors approved adding a sixth grade in December, increasing the potential student body from 350 to 400 students, CEO Kristi Cole said.
In a news release, Kids First Beloitâwhich is building the schoolâcited 2018-19 data from the Wisconsin Forward math exam for sixth-graders, which showed only 16.1% of all Beloit School District students were proficient in math.