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	<title>The Capitol Record &#187; WASL</title>
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		<title>Dorn: &#8220;What are we going to do with the students who don&#8217;t make it?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.tvw.org/capitolrecord/index.php/2009/08/dorn-what-are-we-going-to-do-with-the-students-who-dont-make-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Randy Dorn said he thinks the state is doing a good job with &#8220;the students who stick with us for 12 years.&#8221; But: &#8220;What are we going to do with the students who don&#8217;t make it?&#8221; He said the state needs to do more to keep students in school. He said there&#8217;s even more work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dorn: We&#8217;re flat-lining, and here&#8217;s why</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now state schools superintendent Randy Dorn is back up. He said the WASL hasn&#8217;t gotten easier and won&#8217;t, but that the new standards will allow the state to go much deeper into understanding why students are failing the test. &#8220;The one thing I want people to understand is we plateau,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I want people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WASL scores are plateauing, Burke says. About 60 percent of schools aren&#8217;t making &#8220;adequate&#8221; progress</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alan Burke with the state schools superintendent&#8217;s office is now up. He says the WASL scores are flatlining. &#8220;Plateauing or flat,&#8221; is how he described scores. But, he said, big changes are coming to math and other sections. &#8220;We have a number of schools that will be &#8216;Inadequate Yearly Progress&#8217; in school improvement,&#8221; he said: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch the WASL press conference here</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Go here to watch the press conference on WASL scores now. Or: Refresh the blog and follow along on the blog.]]></description>
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		<title>Dorn: Washington schools are better than AYP makes it seem, assessment test is still required without WASL</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[State Schools Superintendent Randy Dorn is up at the WASL press conference: &#8220;Although this is a WASL release, it also has a lot to do with AYP&#8230; I really have a view about AYP and it&#8217;s basically that it&#8217;s going to give you the impression that we have way more schools that need improvement &#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>93 percent of seniors passed the reading and writing WASL</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niki Reading</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ninety-three percent of high school seniors passed the reading and writing tests in the Washington Assessment of Student Learning, or WASL &#8212; a test that state school superintendent Randy Dorn has pledged to do away with. The results were announced today and represent a small increase over last year&#8217;s 92 percent passage rate. Full results [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get ready for a big day with TVW</title>
		<link>http://www.tvw.org/capitolrecord/index.php/2009/06/get-ready-for-a-big-day-with-tvw/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niki Reading</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today at 10 a.m. &#8212; in about 15 minutes &#8212; we&#8217;ll have the Economic and Revenue Forecast Council live. That will replay at 6 and 9 p.m. and will also be available on our web site. At noon, we&#8217;ll webcast the WASL results with schools superintendent Randy Dorn. That will air at 8 p.m. At [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dorn to Ed committee: Test books are a waste of paper</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niki Reading</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Randy Dorn&#8217;s appearance before the House Education Committee &#8212; to explain his proposal to kick the WASL to the curb &#8212; finished up about early this afternoon. During the hearing, he elaborated on his plans and why they were necessary. He also said cooperation with the Legislature was important &#8212; a slightly different message than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Friday. Here&#8217;s what happened this week you&#8217;ll need to know for next week.</title>
		<link>http://www.tvw.org/capitolrecord/index.php/2009/01/its-friday-heres-what-happened-this-week-youll-need-to-know-for-next-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niki Reading</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday: Dick Thompson, Gov. Gregoire&#8217;s liaison to federal stimulus, said publicly that the state may not get as much of the federal stimulus as he originally thought. On Tuesday: Cheryl Oullette, aka Cheryl the Pig Lady, testified about the importance of a loan program for mobile slaughter units. The units would allow small farmers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One feature of Dorn&#8217;s WASL replacement: Do overs</title>
		<link>http://www.tvw.org/capitolrecord/index.php/2009/01/one-feature-of-dorns-wasl-replacement-do-overs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niki Reading</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dorn&#8217;s proposal to replace the WASL includes a provision that the test is administered twice a year. That&#8217;s only half the story: Students who pass in the fall won&#8217;t have to retake the test in spring. I talked to Nathan Olson, media relations manager for the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, about it. [...]]]></description>
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