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Buffalo board narrows focus on 2025–2030 goals, asks superintendent to identify high‑need group
Summary
The board discussed three draft five‑year goals (college & career readiness, literacy, numeracy) and two guardrails (equitable allocation; culture and climate). Members agreed to ask the superintendent for a data‑driven recommendation on a high‑need, high‑leverage student group and interim targets by Oct. 7 for final consideration at an Oct. 9 meeting.
The Buffalo Board of Education’s executive committee spent its meeting refining the district’s proposed 2025–2030 goals and guardrails and directed the superintendent to return specific, data‑driven recommendations ahead of the board’s next meeting.
Consultant Leslie Grant and outside adviser AJ Crabill reviewed work from an August retreat and presented three candidate goals — college and career readiness, literacy (ELA), and numeracy — and two guardrails intended to protect equitable resource allocation and district culture and climate. The administration’s recommended indicator for college and career readiness was described as students who "graduate within four years" and also achieve one of: at least one college credit, a technical endorsement, or a…
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