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Public and email appeals push Beloit board to consider $2.5 million Hendricks literacy offer
Summary
A public commenter and an email urged the School District of Beloit board to accept a $2,500,000 Hendricks Family Foundation offer for tutoring and staff leadership training to improve reading outcomes; board members debated process and whether to hold a public workshop or combine discussion with planned assistant superintendent interviews.
Bill Johnson, a lifelong Beloiter and Purple Knight, asked the School District of Beloit board to accept an offer from the Hendricks Family Foundation that would fund tutoring and staff leadership training intended to raise students’ reading skills. "Our kids need this," Johnson said during public comment, citing district English language arts proficiency rates he read from distributed materials and urging the board to "accept a helping hand." (Public comment.)
Board staff read an email addressed to board members from a writer…
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