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Board reviews five‑year goals and guardrails; schedules community shares after equity concerns
Summary
Leslie Grant and board members reviewed draft 2025–2030 goals and interim guardrails, discussed monitoring cadence and superintendent evaluation tied to student outcomes, and scheduled community share sessions in December; board members raised equity concerns about AP access and whether numeric targets are sufficiently ambitious.
Leslie Grant, a coach from the Council of Great City Schools, presented draft five‑year goals (2025–2030) and proposed interim guardrails to the Buffalo City School District board during the executive affairs session. Grant emphasized the distinction between long‑term goals and shorter interim measures — recommending interims of one to three years to allow regular monitoring and adjustment.
Grant reviewed draft guardrails intended to protect equitable resource allocation and to reduce disproportionality in discipline (including long‑term suspensions and relative risk for special education students). She explained that the superintendent provided interim metrics to predict progress…
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