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OPRF board reviews freshman on-track recovery pilot and chronic absenteeism monitoring
Summary
District staff reported a new freshman credit-recapture pilot, detailed attendance thresholds and ongoing analysis of feeder-school data after finding a cluster of incoming transfer students among freshmen who struggle academically.
Oak Park–River Forest High School district staff told the Board of Education on Feb. 20 that they are piloting targeted credit-recovery work for freshmen and stepping up monitoring of chronic absenteeism after analyzing fall semester data.
The administration identified 29 freshmen who failed a core course with a grade of 45 percent or higher at semester and offered mandatory skill-based reteaching sessions once per week after school to restore credit. Teachers and staff described the effort as a pilot intended to test whether students will attend and recover credit quickly.
“The plan was to get those students reteaching based on the skill that they were struggling with,” a district administrator said. Staff reported that of the 29 students identified, six in English/history and nine in math signed up for the reteaching; one student has…
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