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Midyear academic update: elementary literacy screening shows midyear gains, division adopts new growth assessment
Summary
Chief Academic Officer Danielle Colucci told the board March 4 that early literacy screening and other midyear measures show progress; the division began using NWEA MAP growth testing in grades 2–9 and reported credential gains in career and technical education.
Chief Academic Officer Danielle Colucci presented the school division’s midyear academic update at the March 4 special meeting.
Colucci highlighted midyear gains in early literacy screening data from the Virginia Literacy Screening System (VLaSS). She said that at the beginning of the school year about 25% of Virginia Beach kindergarteners scored in the system’s high‑risk band; presenters reported a decline in that high‑risk indicator by midyear (the presentation materials described the change as a drop of about 20 percent). Colucci described the screening as a banded risk measure used to identify students who need targeted remediation under the Virginia Literacy Act.
Colucci also described pre‑K screening and said early‑year to midyear…
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