In a statement bemoaning the achievement gap, Jeffrey Villar, executive director of the Connecticut Council for Education Reform, said “these results aren’t good enough.”
“Connecticut can do so much better for its students. The SAT results highlight two major problems in our state: first, that we have made little improvement addressing our massive gaps in achievement — whether you’re comparing the performance of low-income students or students of color to their peers. Second, we have failed to make the systemic changes that are necessary to produce real, measurable improvement,” Villar said.
According to a release announcing the data, Commissioner Dianna Wentzel’s Commissioner’s Council on Mathematics, formed about a year ago in response to the state’s SBAC math results, is expected to release its final report and findings in fall.
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