Clinton City Schools administrators told the board May 1 that recent guidance from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction allows certain state assessments to be re-administered during the regular school year and outlined district plans for remediation and reassessment windows.

Superintendent Wesley Johnson said the change — announced at a March superintendent quarterly meeting — allows districts to offer re-administration (what the state calls re-administration rather than a retest) during the school year but does not alter the statutory testing windows: grades 3–8 assessments must be administered within the final 10 days of the school year and high-school end-of-course (EOC) semester assessments within the last five days, he said. Johnson told the board the district will submit required summer-program and EOG/EOC plans to DPI as already prepared and that staff had preapproved a summer schedule before the state guidance was released.

For high school EOC re-administration, administrators proposed credit-recovery-style remediation sessions the Tuesday–Thursday after Memorial Day with reassessment on Friday, May 30; additional remediation days and a May 30 reassessment window were proposed for second-semester students. The superintendent explained why EOC re-administration matters to students and grades: a higher reassessment score can raise a course average (example given: a student whose course average is 79 could move to 80 with an improved EOC score, potentially changing GPA and grade-level outcomes).

For grades 3–8 EOGs, the district plans language-arts testing on May 12, math on May 14 and science on May 20 (science scores, the superintendent noted, are not released until August). Students who do not earn a proficiency score on an EOG would receive remediation May 19–21 and retest May 22 (with an adjusted schedule for eighth graders whose promotion events conflict with testing). Students failing two assessments would be offered additional remediation in the days following school’s end and a reassessment on May 30, the district said.

The district described staffing and logistics: remediation will use a small team of teachers (district projected four teachers for high-school remediation), instructional assistants and bus-driver/instructional-assistant staff to provide transportation and food; principals and administrators will schedule workdays for staff on remediation dates. The superintendent said some test types (for example, English II) can take up to a week or more to score, creating scheduling challenges.

Administrators asked the board to note that they will file required summer-program plans with DPI (the superintendent said the plans were due “tomorrow” in his presentation) and requested board approval of both the high-school re-administration plan and the grades 3–8 plan; no formal roll-call vote on the re-administration plans was recorded during the meeting.

Ending: District leaders said they will finalize plans, file required documents with DPI, communicate schedules to families, and finalize staffing for remediation days; the board received the presentation and asked clarifying questions.