Davie County Schools details AIG plan revisions, moves universal screening to end of second grade

Sherry White, Davie County Schools district AIG coordinator, told the school board that the district’s three-year AIG plan has been revised to reflect new state guidance and local priorities and that the proposed document will be placed on a future consent agenda for board approval.

The revisions, contained in a plan White described as about 61 pages, change the district’s universal screening to the end of second grade using a picture-based form of the Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT), while maintaining formal identification at the end of third grade. White said the earlier screening will allow the district to “ease them into it” and form nurturing groups for rising third graders; identification and parent notification will remain a multi-data process completed before fourth-grade services begin.

White told the board the district currently identifies 15.23% of students for AIG services and that state funding for AIG is provided at 4%…