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Visitor highlights Louisiana NAEP gains, urges local focus on truancy as school-choice debate surfaces
Summary
Kevin Birkin addressed the Acadia Parish School Board to note statewide gains on the National Assessment of Educational Progress and said the next local priority should be reducing truancy and chronic absenteeism; the meeting included a brief, heated exchange over school choice and vouchers.
Kevin Birkin, a guest speaker, told the Acadia Parish School Board on Jan. 28 that Louisiana’s results on the recent National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) showed measurable improvement and urged local leaders to focus next on reducing truancy.
Birkin cited statewide NAEP rankings and growth repeatedly during his remarks. “We were ranked number 32 in the nation,” he said, adding that Louisiana’s fourth-grade reading rank was 16th nationally and that fourth-grade reading scores had improved in the last two NAEP cycles. He described statewide gains in reading…
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