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Superintendent reports enrollment gains, ongoing special-education staffing challenges
Summary
Superintendent Dr. Vidi Beatty told the board enrollment rose to 49,710 students and highlighted strategic-plan gains while acknowledging persistent vacancies in special-education (notably ASD) classrooms; he described incentives and options the district is pursuing to fill gaps.
Superintendent Dr. Vidi Beatty briefed the board on Nov. 11 that district enrollment stood at 49,710, an increase of roughly 1,000 students from the prior year, and that fall-to-fall retention is 71% with average daily attendance at about 86%.
Beatty said the district has observed gains on strategic-plan metrics (family engagement and certain M-STEP results) and pointed to increases in state funding that…
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