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District 7 school board member urges early-childhood focus, outlines plan for Riviera Beach high school
Summary
Edwin Ferguson, the District 7 school board member, told the council that kindergarten readiness in Riviera Beach is well below district averages, linked early reading to later proficiency, praised local school improvements and described advocacy for a new Riviera Beach high school and programmatic outreach.
Edwin Ferguson, the Palm Beach County School Board member for District 7, briefed the Riviera Beach City Council on Oct. 1 on local school performance and district initiatives he described as relevant to the city.
Ferguson said kindergarten-readiness rates are low across Riviera Beach and argued that early literacy predictors often translate into third-grade English-language-arts proficiency. He cited district averages and singled out three District 7 elementary schools with widely different…
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