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Arlington board hears broad slate of new-course and textbook recommendations, including AP African American Studies and marine-biology credit pathway
Summary
District staff presented multiple new-course proposals, textbook adoptions and course renamings aimed at expanding college-credit opportunities, heritage-language instruction, AP options and a new CTE pathway; the board heard details and asked scheduling, equity and enrollment questions but took no immediate votes.
District curriculum staff and coordinators presented a range of proposed course and textbook changes at the Jan. 21 Arlington Central School District Board of Education meeting, including new AP and college-credit options, a course for Spanish heritage speakers, renamed digital-media classes to support a CTE pathway, a full-year marine biology course with optional college credit from Saint Thomas Aquinas, and a proposed AP African American Studies course.
John Orcutt, who led the presentation, said the district had intentionally connected content-team curriculum work with the district equity committee. He described four new texts under consideration: an intermediate Spanish text La Leyenda de Popocatépetl, the novel Fake ID (author Lamar Giles) for 9th-grade English, and updated French and Italian materials with site licenses for contemporary reading. Orcutt…
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