WISEdash: Wisconsin Information System for
Education Data Dashboard

WISEdash is a data portal that uses "dashboards," or visual collections of graphs and tables, to provide multi-year education data about Wisconsin schools. Current and Certified data can be displayed on both platforms for multiple years and it can be grouped and filtered by a variety of demographics including grade level, gender, race/ethnicity, economic status, disability, English proficiency, and migrant status. Data download files are also available.

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Qualifications of Teachers

ESEA Required Assessments (Testing)

Districts receiving federal funds under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) are required to notify parents and guardians of their right to request and receive information on the professional qualifications of their child’s teacher(s). Specifically, you have the right to request the following:

• Whether your child’s teacher has met state qualification and licensing criteria for the grade levels and subject areas in which he or she teaches.

• Whether your child’s teacher is teaching under emergency or other provisional status through which state qualification or licensing criteria have been waived.

• Whether your child’s teacher is teaching in the field if the discipline of the certification of the teacher.

• Whether your child is provided services by paraprofessionals and, if so, their qualifications.

All teachers in the School District of Janesville have a bachelor’s degree and a large percentage have advanced degrees. In addition, all paraprofessionals meet ESEA qualifications. You can check on the state certification of your child’s teacher by accessing the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction website (user name “view” password “1234567”) at https://dpi.wi.gov/tepdl/license-lookup/public-search or by contacting Human Resources at 608-743-5024.

Wisconsin Student Assessment System

The Wisconsin Student Assessment System (WSAS) is a comprehensive statewide program designed to provide information about what students know in core academic areas and whether they can apply what they know. The WSAS includes:

• The Wisconsin Forward Exam at grades 3-8 in English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics, at grades 4 and 8 in Science, and 4, 8, and 10 in Social Studies 
• Dynamic Learning Maps (DLM) at grades 3-11 in ELA and Mathematics, at grades 4 and 8 - 11 in Science, and at grades 4, 8, and 10 in Social Studies,
• PreACT Secure at grades 9 & 10 in English, Reading, Mathematics, and Science,
• The ACT with Writing at grade 11 for Reading, English, Mathematics, Science, and Writing.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires all states to test all students in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics in grades 3-8 and once in high school. ESSA also requires students be assessed in Science once each grade span (3-6, 7-9, and 10-12 grades). Student performance on these assessments is reported in proficiency categories and used for accountability determination at the school, district and state levels. Wisconsin State statute also requires students to take grade 9 and 10 assessments as well as the social studies test. These tests together create the Wisconsin Student Assessment System.

More details can be found at https://dpi.wi.gov/assessment