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District adopts Benchmark Advance literacy resource; staff training scheduled while state funding remains unreleased
Summary
The district completed a review and adoption of Benchmark Advance for elementary literacy instruction and scheduled staff training on April 17 and August 26; district staff warned that the $50 million allocated by the state to help districts implement Act 20 had not yet been released by DPI.
Chris Hintzman, director of curriculum (as introduced to the board), updated the school board on the district's Act 20 implementation and elementary literacy training at the April 7 Committee of the Whole meeting.
The district completed a summer review of literacy resources and adopted Benchmark Advance as the elementary literacy curriculum aligned with science‑based literacy instruction required by…
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