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Phoenix Elementary District highlights focus schools, customer-service plan and community requests amid budget adjustments
Summary
Superintendent Deborah Gonzales described the district—s focus-school strategy for math goals, a customer-service plan and recurring family requests for social workers, safer campuses, arts and longer preschool—framing these priorities while the district adjusts to federal grant reductions.
Deborah Gonzales, superintendent of Phoenix Elementary District (4256), outlined how the district is monitoring progress toward its academic goals and responding to community feedback.
Gonzales described goals 2 (early literacy/math) and 5 (middle-years math) and said the district identified underperforming sites as "focus schools," where additional resources such as coaches and instructional assistants are deployed to accelerate student growth between fall and winter assessments. "This helped us to understand that some of the things that we…
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