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Starbuck International K–8 outlines IB rollout, targets to shrink proficiency gap
Summary
At the March 17 Racine Unified School District board meeting, Starbuck International K–8 leaders described work to merge three schools, expand the International Baccalaureate program and raise student proficiency, especially for nonwhite students, and answered board questions about staffing, planning time and IB training requirements.
At the Racine Unified School District Board of Education meeting March 17, Sarah Obleski, head of schools at Starbuck International K–8, described the school’s first year after merging Starbuck, Westridge and Jefferson and outlined targets to narrow an identified proficiency gap.
Obleski told the board the district’s review of combined data showed “88 percent of [students in grades 3–8] were not proficient,” and that one of the school’s explicit goals is to raise students’ Forward Math scores “from 12 to 20% this spring.” She said the campus exited the state’s CSI (Comprehensive Support and Improvement) designation at the end of last school year after multi-year work on professional learning communities (PLCs) and…
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