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District staff outlines move to assessment-based curriculum, cites $200,000 in software subscriptions
Summary
At an East Allegheny School District board meeting, district staff presented a plan to align course grades with state standards, expand diagnostic assessments and pare back supplemental instructional software — noting roughly $200,000 in annual subscriptions and $64,000 spent on recent social-studies materials.
District staff member Sean Tomaszewski told the East Allegheny School District board that the district will move toward an assessment-based curriculum infrastructure intended to align course grades with PSSA and Keystone standards and to improve tracking of student growth.
"We have over 300 curriculum documents in EdInsight right now, but it doesn't seem like there's really any practical manifestation of those curriculum documents in practice," Tomaszewski said, arguing the district should base curriculum development on assessments and use those results to shape instruction.
Tomaszewski outlined three…
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