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CMS midyear literacy report shows first-grade benchmark gap; district says pace can be accelerated
Summary
At its May 13 meeting, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools officials reported midyear DIBELS results showing 58.6% of first-graders at or above benchmark and said targeted interventions and progress monitoring are in place to meet an annual target of 76%.
At the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education meeting on May 13, Dr. Hill, the district superintendent, presented a midyear student outcomes monitoring report showing first-grade early-literacy performance below the district's annual target.
The report said 6,092 of 10,394 first-grade students (58.6%) were at or above the DIBELS benchmark at midyear; the district's end-of-year target for first grade is 76%. Dr. Hill said, "If that rate of increase in student performance continued this year, our end of year performance would be 72%. Therefore, in order to meet this year's 76% target for first grade students, we need to accelerate our rate of growth by 4 percentage points for first grade students over last year's pace." Dr. Hill added, "We feel very confident that we will be able to meet the target for first grade" based on recent progress monitoring.
Why it matters: the board has set a multi-year goal to boost early literacy so more students are "enrolled, employed, or enlisted" after graduation, and DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) results are the…
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