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KIPP Texas reports early literacy and attendance gains but flags math as biggest academic challenge
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KIPP Texas officials told the board that eight elementary “transformation” schools show early literacy gains and improved attendance but continue to lag in math; leaders said the work is a multiyear commitment requiring intensified teacher coaching and targeted interventions.
KIPP Texas reported midyear gains Wednesday from its transformation region — a cohort of eight elementary schools — driven by improved early literacy and higher attendance, while math achievement remains the most urgent area for action.
Board members heard that DIBELS early‑literacy scores rose year over year and that chronic absenteeism fell at the transformation sites. Dan Caesar, chief schools officer, said the schools reduced the number of students in the “well below” early‑literacy category and recorded double‑digit year‑over‑year growth on the midyear DIBELS administration.
The board was told that attendance has improved across the transformation schools and that school leaders are using systematic, proactive family outreach. "When you go into a transformation school, every leader walks in, they start in the office, and they say, 'How many kids are absent today?'" Caesar said,…
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