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Board confronts declining state assessment results and persistent achievement gaps
Summary
District leaders presented the South Dakota report card showing cohort growth in early grades but declines in composite proficiency; trustees pressed administration on staffing, interventions and a proposed task force focused on Native student outcomes.
District leaders presented state assessment results and a broad discussion followed about persistent achievement gaps, staffing shortages and possible next steps.
Jennifer Roberts, director of teaching, learning and innovation, framed the presentation as a review of the South Dakota Department of Education report card, calling the data “lagging” indicators that show how the system performed in the previous school year. “This data is what we call lagging data,” Roberts said, and then walked trustees through ELA and math cohort results, subgroup breakdowns (by ethnicity, poverty and disability), and changes stemming from statewide testing…
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