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Livingston Parish committee approves 2025-26 pupil progression plan, tightens early-grade promotion rules
Summary
The Livingston Parish Curriculum and Policy Committee approved updates to the 2025-26 pupil progression plan that require kindergarten-through-second-grade students to meet both literacy and numeracy thresholds for promotion, set a 60% unit-test passing average for promotion consideration, and standardize terminology across the document.
The Livingston Parish Curriculum and Policy Committee approved revisions to the district's pupil progression plan for the 2025-26 school year, adopting tighter promotion criteria for early grades and several technical changes to unit-credit and terminology rules.
Curriculum Director Beth Johnson told the committee that "the State Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and LDOE require assurances that we form a committee to update and revise the pupil progression yearly," and that Livingston Parish used a 23-member committee to develop the changes.
The most consequential change requires kindergarten through second-grade students to meet both math and English thresholds to be promoted. Johnson said students must "score above the well below category of both the literacy and…
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