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Wallingford committee approves revised and new high-school, CTE and elementary science courses by consensus
Summary
The Board of Educational Instructional Committee on May 5 gave verbal consensus to a package of new and revised courses across CTE, family and consumer sciences, world language, music and K–12 science, moving the district’s course offerings for next year forward.
The Board of Educational Instructional Committee on May 5 gave verbal consensus to a large package of curriculum proposals that district staff presented, approving a range of new and revised courses across Career and Technical Education (CTE), family and consumer sciences, fine arts, world language, and K–12 science.
District curriculum staff presented the course slate and enrollment projections before the board took consensus votes. The slate included middle- and high-school CTE courses (grade 7 structural design; life-on-your-own; digital imaging and web design; medical careers I; developing child I; woodworking I), new and revised world-language and music offerings (French IV, Italian II, music theory, band), and elementary through high-school science updates (grade 2–3 science, grade 7, anatomy & physiology, environmental earth science, astronomy).
Why it matters: the approvals set which courses will be offered and how those programs will be scheduled next school year. Several presenters said the revisions aim to align classroom…
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