Assembly Bill 921
Pupil assessments
Topics: Milwaukee: School, Parochial and private educational institutions, Public Instruction, Department of, School, School: Branches of instruction
Stopped in committee
It never got a , so it never came up for a vote. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.
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Introduced, passed
Apr 2, 2010
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Committee, stopped here
Stopped here. No public hearing was held.
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Assembly vote, not reached
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Senate vote, not reached
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Governor, not reached
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Law, not reached
Latest entry in the official record, Apr 28, 2010: “Failed to pass pursuant to ”
It never got a hearing in the Assembly Committee on Education Reform. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.
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Committee
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Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary
Legislative Reference Bureau
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Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary
Author
A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.
Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary
What it would have done
Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.
Under current law, school districts, independent charter schools, and the private schools that participate in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) are required to administer statewide examinations to pupils enrolled in the fourth, eighth, and tenth grades. Beginning in the 2011-12 school year, this bill eliminates the tenth grade exam and substitutes an 11th grade exam. Under the bill, the 11th grade exam must consist of two parts, the standardized test for high school achievement and college admissions produced by ACT, Inc., and a supplement developed by the Department of Public Instruction (DPI), aligned to the state academic standards.
The bill provides that the private schools that participate in the MPCP are exempt from the requirement to administer the fourth, eighth, and tenth or eleventh grade exams until DPI adopts or approves substantially redesigned exams. Instead, these private schools must administer nationally normed standardized examinations to their pupils.
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Beginning in the 2011-12 school year, this bill requires school districts, independent charter schools, and the MPCP schools to administer benchmark examinations in language arts, mathematics, and science at least twice each school year to pupils enrolled in grades three to ten.
Beginning in the 2012-13 school year, the bill requires school districts to use value-added modeling to measure pupil academic progress. The bill directs DPI to define "value-added modeling" by rule. In general, the term is used to refer to a collection of statistical techniques that uses pupil test score data to estimate the effects of individual schools or teachers.
The bill directs DPI, by September 1, 2011, and decennially thereafter, to update the pupil academic standards and the performance levels for the statewide examinations. The bill directs DPI and the governor to jointly ensure that the performance levels are aligned with international performance levels.
Finally, the bill requires that the results of any standardized examination administered to a pupil under state law or under the federal No Child Left Behind Act be available to the pupil's parent or guardian within six weeks of the exam's administration.
Who's behind it
7 representatives are its . All 7 are Republicans.
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Authors (7)
- Edward Brooks · Republican, Assembly
- Brett Davis · Republican, Assembly
- Daniel LeMahieu · Republican, Assembly
- John Nygren · Republican, Assembly
- Scott Suder · Republican, Assembly
- John Townsend · Republican, Assembly
- Robin Vos · Republican, Assembly
What happened
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Apr 28, 2010
The session ended, and the bill died with it.
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Apr 2, 2010
Sent to the Assembly Committee on Education Reform.
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Apr 2, 2010
Introduced in the Assembly.
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Terms on this page
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary
Author
A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.
Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary
From the Wisconsin Legislature's official record, checked Sep 15, 2026. See the source
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis