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Sanford school leaders report lower absences, rising test readiness; district details multimillion-dollar campus projects
Summary
Principals from Sanford schools reported declines in absences and increases in test readiness at a monthly community meeting; district operations outlined large capital projects and planned summer work across multiple campuses.
Jamie Washington, ninth-grade principal at Edward Blackshear Ninth Grade Center, told the Sanford monthly community meeting that the campus has cut disciplinary incidents and improved supports, saying, “we have been doing an amazing job of getting our discipline data down. We're about 40% reduced from this year compared to last year.”
The decline in discipline incidents was matched by administrators at Seminole High School’s main campus, where Cindy Carlton, assistant principal, credited a reimplementation of the district’s attendance enforcement (referred to at the meeting as “credit denial”) with a notable drop in excessive absences. Carlton said last year about 18.5% of students had more than 10 unexcused absences at midyear; this year that figure was 10% at the same point. “With this reimplementation, credit denial has been probably the most positive…
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