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District outlines TeachTown purchase to support PASA students in life-skills classrooms
Summary
Eastern York’s special-education supervisor told the board the district plans to buy 25 TeachTown student licenses and accompanying teacher materials to instruct students eligible for the Pennsylvania Alternate System of Assessment (PASA); the initial, budgeted cost shown was $15,660.
Rachel Rogers, the district’s supervisor of special education, presented an overview of the Pennsylvania Alternate System of Assessment and a proposed curriculum purchase aimed at students who take the PASA.
“PASA stands for the Pennsylvania Alternate System of Assessment,” Rogers said, explaining that PASA assesses students with the most significant cognitive disabilities using hands-on, one-on-one tasks rather than the standard PSSA or Keystone tests.
Rogers told the board the district plans to use TeachTown, a K–12 adapted core curriculum, in middle- and high-school…
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