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District updates strategic goals: boost multilingual graduates and reduce chronic absenteeism
Summary
District presenters outlined a strategic-plan update that sets a 5-year goal to increase graduates proficient in multiple languages (baseline 10.25%; proposed 12% target) and a Year 1 attendance benchmark to raise persistently present students to 73% (baseline 70.5%), with new metrics, schoolwide plans and a partnership with Attendance Works.
Green Bay Area Public School District officials on Nov. 10 presented a strategic-plan progress report focused on two measurable priorities: language proficiency and student attendance.
District presenters said the baseline for students graduating with proficiency in more than one language is 10.25% and staff propose raising the five-year target to 12%. Julie Seefeld, director of multilingual programming, outlined district criteria for counting graduates as proficient in multiple languages, including performance on norm-referenced assessments (for English: ACT ELA composite and AP/IB results; for other languages: AP Spanish, AvantSTAMP for ASL, and approved assessments for other languages). She noted state rules for the Seal of Biliteracy…
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