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Pasco workshop outlines expansion of acceleration and gifted programs, seeks PHSC dual-enrollment exception
Summary
District staff presented recommendations to expand AP/Cambridge offerings, a pilot elementary gifted-and-talented model, and a dual-enrollment SLS pathway with PHSC that would allow students with 2.5+ GPA to access college credit under reduced criteria; the PHSC agreement is slated for board review March 3.
District staff on Wednesday reviewed a package of recommendations intended to increase student access to acceleration and gifted programming across Pasco schools. Speaker 2 introduced the workshop as tied to the district’s strategic Goal 7.1, and Speaker 3 (Samantha Eiler) laid out data and specific proposals for middle and high school acceleration and an elementary gifted pilot.
The presentation highlighted recent progress and targets. Staff said middle-school algebra enrollment rose 31 percent year over year and that, with proper placement, middle-school potential acceleration could reach 95 percent compared with last year’s 63 percent. For high school, staff reported that 57 percent of current seniors had earned an acceleration point; 2,583 seniors had not, and 63 percent of those non‑accelerated seniors have a GPA…
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