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Committee proposes adding numeracy to literacy goal, debates grade-level checkpoints
Summary
Staff recommended adding math (numeracy) to the board's literacy focus, proposing a seventh-grade math checkpoint; members debated whether single-grade checkpoints are too late and whether goals should be set annually or as three-year targets.
At the Sept. 29 Strategic Planning Committee meeting, staff proposed revising the board's literacy focus to explicitly include numeracy and to add a seventh-grade math goal as a critical checkpoint for state progress measures.
Brianna Summers, Director of Policy and Academics, said many stakeholders urged the board to add math and suggested a seventh-grade benchmark because "seventh grade is most likely the last point in which you have students…
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