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Students and community group ask board for an eighth period and scheduling changes as state law adds foreign-language requirement
Summary
Students and community leaders asked the Valley View board to add an eighth period or otherwise adjust schedules so at-risk students can eat, access coursework, and meet a forthcoming state foreign-language graduation requirement.
Students and community program leaders spoke during public comment at the Sept. 22 Valley View board meeting about schedule constraints that leave some students without time for lunch or necessary coursework. Willie Poll, executive director of FOCUS (a program serving at-risk and underserved students), brought FOCUS students to the meeting and described students who must move between credit-recovery, work-based programs and bus schedules without adequate time to eat or rest.
Several students described the same problem. "The added 20 minutes would help people who need to eat because they don't have enough time," said Jaleel…
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