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St. Tammany board committee advances 17 pupil-progression recommendations, including new second-grade promotion rule and block-schedule alignments
Summary
A committee recommended 17 changes to the district pupil-progression policy for 2025–26, moving language arts into required second-grade subjects, adjusting assessment and grading rules to align with a planned block schedule, and changing proficiency cutoffs on district exams to match state guidance. The committee vote was unanimous by the board.
The St. Tammany Parish Schools committee as a whole voted to accept a package of 17 recommended revisions to the district’s pupil-progression plan for the 2025–26 school year, presenting changes to second-grade promotion rules, high-school grading and testing aligned to a move to block scheduling, and updated district exam standards.
The recommendations were presented to the board by Dr. Langlois, who explained the review process and said, “we had 36 total suggestions that came in from our stakeholders… 20 of them received recommendations from our stakeholders in our schools and then those we presented to our advisory committee.”
The most substantive changes include: moving language arts into the required subjects for second-grade promotion (so students would need to pass reading, language arts and math, plus either science or social studies); removing a standing 10% interim-assessment weight that applied only to seventh and eighth grades; aligning the…
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