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Binghamton schools outline five-year gap-closing approach after district improvement review
Summary
Superintendent presented the district comprehensive improvement plan, including a 20% gap-closing objective spread over five years, performance gains on local assessments and continued focus on attendance and tiered student supports.
Superintendent Tanya presented the district’s comprehensive improvement plan to the Board of Education on Aug. 19, outlining academic goals, measurement tools and supports staff will use to raise student outcomes across the district.
The plan focuses on four commitments — academic and instructional excellence, student supports (attendance and social-emotional well-being), extracurricular engagement and safety — and uses a 20% gap-closing measure as the multi-year target for subgroups the district seeks to improve.
Tanya said the district adopted a 20% gap-closing approach tied to a five-year horizon: “to close the gap to 100% reading at grade level over five years we set a 20% gap-closing measure,”…
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