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Board opens public comment window on instructional materials; ELA adoption timeline still being finalized
Summary
Dr. Hanlon said the meeting marked a point in the district's instructional-materials timeline for public comment; staff will bring final recommendations at the next board meeting and are still discussing ELA rollout and intervention materials.
Dr. Hanlon told the board the meeting provided a public-comment opportunity in the district's instructional materials timeline and said staff would present final recommendations at the next meeting.
"This is a point in our instructional materials timeline where we take public comment," Dr. Hanlon said. She invited members of the public to comment and said leadership would return with final recommendations at the next board meeting.
Board members asked how the new materials would be presented and when. Dr. Hanlon said district leadership and instructional and finance staff would discuss rollout plans and the outlook for adoption. She noted there is "another year of adoption left on our benchmark for ELA, but not for the intervention materials for personal finance," indicating different timelines for curricular components.
Dr. Hanlon said staff would share the ELA rollout decisions with the board when they had them and that procedural steps would follow the public-comment period. No final adoption vote occurred at this meeting; the matter remains under staff review with additional discussion to come.
The board also designated this meeting as a time to accept public comment on instruction materials; Dr. Hanlon invited speakers and said final recommendations would come back to the board at the next meeting.
