The school board cited declining test scores and below average reading and math skills. (inthepublicinterest.org)
At a 500 - student elementary school with declining test scores in mathematics, a large percentage of those identified as English Language Learners (ELL) were not meeting standards in math at the fifth grade level. (blog.k-12leadership.org)
This view would assign less importance to concerns about declining test scores at the elementary - school level, since the increasing skill of the workforce provides evidence that overall student achievement is not falling. (educationnext.org)