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Tooele board approves 2025–26 early learning plan with K–3 literacy and targeted math goals
Summary
The Tooele County School District Board approved the 2025–26 Early Learning Plan, keeping a continued focus on kindergarten gains while expanding targeted supports for first grade and tiered math interventions in second and third grades.
The Tooele County School District Board of Education voted to approve the district’s 2025–26 Early Learning Plan during its May 2025 meeting, adopting targets aimed at sustaining kindergarten gains and accelerating growth in first grade and targeted grades in math.
District staff said the decision to focus K–3 work on specific grade bands follows several years of concentrated kindergarten work and recent strong gains there. “We've been focusing on kinder for a couple of years, and we've had basically two years of really significant growth,” a district staff member said during the presentation. The staff member added the district is now “really digging into first grade in preparation to do something that we hope is meaningful.”
Board members heard data showing mixed results across measures. Staff reported that third-grade math proficiency moved from 45% (2021–22) to 49% (2022–23), dipped to 46% (2023–24) and rose to 54% in the most recent year,…
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