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Eastside Charter credits staff retention and STEM Hub partnerships for sharp gains on state assessments
Summary
Eastside Charter School officials told the Wilmington City Council education committee that the school’s students have outpaced statewide recovery from COVID-era learning loss and that a new STEM Hub is expanding workforce and family services across Wilmington.
Eastside Charter School leaders told the Wilmington City Council Education, Youth and Family Services Committee on June 11 that the school’s same-student cohorts have shown large year-over-year test-score gains while a newly opened STEM Hub is expanding workforce-development training for families across Wilmington.
"The same students for us have increased by 25%... our students started off in '22 at 27% proficient, grew to 52%," said Dr. Aaron Bass, a presenter for Eastside Charter School, describing the school's English language arts results compared with state averages. He added that Eastside's eighth graders have earned more than $250,000 in private-school scholarships this year.
The nut of Eastside's pitch to the committee was twofold:…
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