BY ASHLEY D. SWANSON
Administrators in all three Clay County K-12 schools are looking toward a higher goal when it comes to preparing students for next year’s Nebraska State Standards Exam.
This year’s NeSA scores were released later than usual, in December, with expectations of lower scores across the board in schools throughout Nebraska. The lower scores are in part because of a change to the exam. In 2016, the exam focused on Math, Science, Writing, and Reading; this year’s switched gears to Math, Science, and English Language Arts, which replaced Writing and Reading. Another change this year was specifically for the 11th graders, who, in the past, also took the exam but were switched to only taking the ACT this year.
“I think administrators across the state knew that this round was going to be a tough round as far as how scores were going to come out,” Sutton Superintendent Dana Wiseman said.