Provo board briefed on Utah early learning plan changes; district sets math goals after SB127 removed statewide literacy target

Michelle Eldridge, the district’s director of continuous school improvement, briefed the Provo City School Board on changes to Utah’s early learning plan under Senate Bill 127 and on Provo’s K–3 goals for the coming school year. The state’s rewrite removed a required statewide literacy goal and now requires districts to set math goals; districts must still track literacy outcomes and diagnostic assessments. "The biggest change this last spring was ... they are now not allowing a literacy goal in the plan, only math goals," Eldridge said. Nut graf: The change shifts the state reporting requirement to math goals while retaining literacy diagnostics; Provo presented its math goals and the district’s implementation plan, including completed LETRS training for many teachers, the end of a related professional learning grant, and a state‑required…