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Buffalo school leaders set short timeline to refine modest 2024'5 goals after board presses for higher targets
Summary
District staff presented interim 2024'5 literacy and math targets and draft 2025—2030 guardrails; some board members called the proposed 1'2 percentage'point gains too small and pressed staff for sharper stretch goals and clearer timelines. Staff agreed to provide a one'page summary and revised interims for board review.
The Buffalo City School District executive affairs committee reviewed staff'proposed annual and multiyear student'outcome goals on Tuesday, pressing the administration to justify modest, data'driven increases and setting a short timetable for revised materials. District staff laid out five one'year goals for 2024'5 with detailed interim measures tied to DIBELS and IReady assessments, and sketched guardrails for the board'commissioned five'year goals (August 2025'August 2030).
Laura (data team) presented numeric proposals for the coming year, including a literacy goal in which the percent of economically disadvantaged grade 4 students proficient on the 2025 end'of'year DIBELS assessment "will increase from 35 percent in June 2024 to 38 percent in June 2025," and a parallel goal to raise grade 3 proficiency from 40 percent to 43 percent. The presentation included interim measures (IReady proficiency, reductions in students "well below average," and…
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