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Pine Richland board approves revised 9th-grade English curriculum; proposed purchase of Angel of Greenwood fails
Summary
The Pine Richland School Board on Jan. 13 approved revisions to the academic and honors English 9 curricula for 2025–26 but did not approve the district purchase of the contemporary novel Angel of Greenwood after spirited public debate; the curriculum change passed 5–4 while the book purchase failed (3–5–1).
The Pine Richland School Board on Jan. 13 approved a revised academic and honors English 9 curriculum for the 2025–26 school year, then voted down a separate motion to purchase Angel of Greenwood by Randy Pink as an additional core text for ninth-grade classes.
Board members voted 5–4 to adopt the updated academic and honors course guides after staff and teachers described how the new parent-facing curriculum aligns representative learning goals with classroom units. Later in the meeting a motion to buy classroom copies of Angel of Greenwood failed by roll-call: three in favor, five opposed and one abstention.
District and school leaders framed the curriculum vote as an alignment and communication step. "We went through a comprehensive process to identify where core texts best fit in the unit-based curriculum," said Dr. Brian R. Miller, superintendent. "These are representative learning goals drawn from the unit-based curriculum teachers already use." Dr. Pasquinelli, the…
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