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Duarte Unified reviews 2025 California Dashboard, highlights progress for English learners and students with disabilities
Summary
At a March study session, Duarte Unified leaders reviewed the 2025 California Dashboard, noting modest growth for long-term English learners after targeted tutoring, declines in suspension and chronic absenteeism for students with disabilities, persistent math gaps, and plans to align curriculum and LCAP goals; no board votes on policy were taken.
Duarte Unified district leaders presented the district’s 2025 California Dashboard at a study session, outlining where student groups are making gains and where the system must focus next. Doctor Lawson, the district’s senior director of educational services, led the presentation and said the dashboard is designed to show multi-year growth and to spotlight equity gaps so the district can target supports.
The presentation laid out state priority indicators — English language arts, mathematics, science, chronic absenteeism, suspension and English learner progress — and explained how the dashboard’s five color bands (red to blue) reflect year-to-year movement rather than single-year judgments. Lawson said the report shows Duarte Unified’s ELA scores are below the standard and that math remains the district’s most persistent area of concern.
“Sometimes a change in color is the product of where we started the prior year,” Doctor Lawson said, asking trustees to consider both the district’s distance from the standard and the percent of students…
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