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District outlines plan to move freshmen to satellite ninth-grade center to ease transition
Summary
Trustees and the superintendent described a plan to separate ninth graders for core instruction at a satellite site to reduce transition failures, improve support and reduce open-campus movement; transportation hubs and capacity limits were discussed.
The Sweetwater County School District #1 Board of Trustees discussed plans to move ninth-grade core instruction to a satellite ninth-grade center next school year, with the goal of improving academic outcomes and easing the middle-to-high-school transition.
Trustee Schumacher described the plan and her support, saying the change is aimed at reducing ninth-grade failure and dropout risk: “It's my understanding that the freshman class is gonna be taken out of the high school for their core classes. It's gonna be split into 2.” Superintendent Libby and other trustees described…
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