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Brainerd board recommends pausing kindergarten gifted screening while AGATE program is redesigned
Summary
The Brainerd Public School District administration recommended pausing kindergarten ability screening for one year to redesign AGATE identification and programming with outside experts; the pause could save roughly $70,000 next year and will be placed on the regular-meeting agenda for formal action.
Superintendent Grant and administrators proposed pausing the districts kindergarten ability screening for one year so the district can redesign its AGATE (gifted and talented) identification and programming.
"The recommendation we are bringing forward is to pause kindergarten testing for this year so that we have time to do an adequate study," Carrie, an administrator leading the review, told the board. She said the program has not been reviewed since 2017…
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