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Board presses state on GED/GATE counting and PSAT concordance as legislative priorities are drafted
Summary
Escambia County board members discussed adding measures to their legislative priorities asking the state to change how GEDs and GATE program results affect school graduation rates and to address PSAT concordance timing, and directed staff to help draft language for use at the Florida School Boards Association conference and with legislators.
Escambia County School Board members spent substantial time at a workshop reviewing and expanding a draft legislative priorities platform, focusing discussion on graduation-rate calculations tied to GEDs, the state’s GATE program and the use of PSAT scores as a concordant pathway to graduation.
Board members and staff said the GATE program (a state initiative intended to serve students who earn a GED prior to their cohort graduation) creates a perverse incentive under current…
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