Board adopts five state-required EACR goals, including stronger kindergarten screening target
Summary
Board approved the district’s five Comprehensive Achievement & Civic Readiness goals: kindergarten screening target raised to 83%, expanded monitoring of special-education gaps, maintenance of a 4‑year plan for high-school students, multi-year graduation targets, and a new lifelong‑learner (growth-mindset) goal.
The board approved the district’s Comprehensive Achievement and Civic Readiness (EACR) goals after a staff presentation explaining the targets and the committee process that set them.
The five goals presented are: 1) increase kindergarten readiness screening to 83% (screening rose from 62% to 81% last year, staff said), 2) focus on closing the achievement gap with expanded grade bands for special-education monitoring, 3) maintain a college-and-career goal ensuring 100% of high-school students have a four‑year plan, 4) pursue a multi‑year graduation improvement target aiming for 96% within four years, and 5) adopt a new lifelong‑learner measure to increase growth‑mindset indicators (last fall ~21% of the Class of 2028 showed a growth mindset; the district set a longer-term target of 60%).
Staff said goal-setting followed a district committee process that includes parent representatives, students, teachers and principals. Board members voted to accept the EACR report and its goals.
Board direction included tracking the stated metrics and returning data as requested.
