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Board reviews curriculum updates, Future Ready Index and Title IX policy changes
Summary
Administrators proposed raising the high-school financial-literacy course from 0.25 to 0.5 credit (adding an asynchronous component) to meet PDE requirements, presented a new Earth and Space Science course and art honors credit changes, and summarized the district’s Future Ready Index results and Title IX policy updates.
The Education Committee discussed several curriculum and assessment items Dec. 4, including changes to meet Pennsylvania Department of Education requirements and a broad district assessment briefing.
To comply with the PDE requirement that personal finance be a 0.5 credit, the district proposed increasing the financial-literacy course from 0.25 to 0.5 credit by combining 0.25 in-class instruction with 0.25 of asynchronous online work. Mr. Bond said the online portion will use a mix of district-designed modules and an adapted third-party platform (BusinessU) and that study halls or evening time could be used for completion. Board members supported…
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