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District multilingual director reports mixed TELPAS/ST A R results, highlights staffing waivers and certification push
Summary
Shauna Punch, Stafford MSD Director of Federal and State Programs, presented the annual multilingual program evaluation showing emergent bilinguals comprise 24% of enrollment, mixed year‑to‑year STA R trends, TELPAS proficiency distributions and a district effort to reduce bilingual/ESL certification waivers.
At the Oct. 13 Stafford Municipal School Board meeting, Shauna Punch, Director of Federal and State Programs, presented the district’s annual multilingual program evaluation required by the Texas Administrative Code. Her presentation covered student demographics, STA R performance comparisons between the 2023–24 and 2024–25 school years, TELPAS proficiency and progress measures, reclassification statistics and the district’s use of bilingual exceptions and ESL waivers due to certification gaps.
Key data presented: • Emergent bilingual (EB) students constituted about 24% of the district population overall, with campus-level rates of about 30% at the elementary/ECC level, 27% at the middle school, 7% at STEM and about 20% at the high school. • The…
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