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Superintendent briefs committee on grants, rising economically disadvantaged share, English-learner screenings and attendance concerns
Summary
District officials reported grant funding history, increases in economically disadvantaged students, growing English-learner screening activity and elevated absenteeism; staff said interventions and reporting adjustments are underway.
The superintendent and district administrators updated the Apponequet Regional School Committee Nov. 28 on federal grant history, trends in English-learner (EL) screenings, and what they described as “telling” levels of student absenteeism across schools.
The district provided grant data for fiscal years 2015–2019. Officials said the district’s Title I allocation for FY19 was $260,691 and that the bulk of Title I funds are used to pay for reading specialists’ salaries and associated retirement costs; that allocation leaves roughly $20,000 for other Title I interventions. The administration told the committee the district’s share of economically disadvantaged students rose from 21.3% in FY16 to…
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