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Casa Grande board places two phonics supplements on 60-day public review after public comment on curriculum
Summary
The Casa Grande Elementary School District board voted unanimously to place two supplemental phonics programs — UFLI and Just Words — on a 60-day public review, after public commenters raised concerns about religious and historical material in a separate literacy curriculum.
The Casa Grande Elementary School District Governing Board voted unanimously to place two supplemental phonics programs on a 60-day public review, the board decided at its meeting.
The board approved a proposal to make the University of Florida Literacy Institute (UFLI) phonics intervention and Wilson’s Just Words program available as supplemental materials for schools, with links and a feedback survey to be posted online for the full review period.
The actions come after several members of the public used the meeting’s public-comment period to raise objections to material in the district’s Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) curriculum, particularly passages about world religions and a story described by one commenter as portraying lying as acceptable. Board members said the public comments underlined the need to make review materials and feedback channels highly visible.
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