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Grand Rapids Public School District presents first Comprehensive Achievement and Civic Readiness and Achievement & Integration reports

Grand Rapids Public School District Board · December 16, 2025
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Summary

District staff presented the inaugural Comprehensive Achievement and Civic Readiness (CACR) and Achievement & Integration (ANI) reports required by 2024 legislation, citing preschool screening gains, high graduation rates, and strategies to close racial and economic achievement gaps. The board moved to approve the reports for publication.

CAROL KOPPS, District Literacy Lead, and colleagues presented the Grand Rapids Public School District’s first Comprehensive Achievement and Civic Readiness (CACR) report — the renamed successor to Minnesota’s "World’s Best Workforce" statute — together with the district’s Achievement & Integration (ANI) findings and targets for the 2024–25 school year. The reports will be posted on the district website after board approval.

The presentation framed goals under "readiness, resilience and excellence," listing five district priorities: ensuring children are ready for school, closing racial and economic achievement gaps, preparing students for career and college, maintaining high graduation rates, and…

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