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Superintendent outlines start-of-year diagnostics, security upgrades, internships and staffing progress
Summary
Superintendent Cole reported on fall diagnostic assessments, a $50,000 band-instrument grant, SRO hiring progress, school security grants, weapons detectors and internship expansion across the East Baton Rouge Parish School System.
Superintendent Cole opened the Aug. 21 East Baton Rouge Parish School Board meeting with a wide-ranging update on the new school year, touching on assessments, fine-arts investments, safety upgrades, staffing and work-based learning.
Cole said the district is conducting beginning-of-year diagnostic literacy and numeracy screenings required by state policy and will use diagnostic and common formative assessment data to establish baselines for student progress. The superintendent said the board…
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