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Superintendent outlines Strong Readers Act changes and leads extended discussion on student cell-phone limits
Summary
Superintendent Dawn Chancellor briefed the board on the Strong Readers Act's removal of third-grade retention, new graduation-pathway flexibility and Leader in Me training, then led an extensive discussion of potential district cell-phone limits including phone-pouch pilots and community engagement.
Superintendent Dawn Chancellor told the Bartlesville Public Schools board that the Strong Readers Act replaces the Reading Sufficiency Act and removes the automatic third-grade retention requirement tied to a student's third-grade reading test performance.
"It removes the third grade retention requirement," Chancellor said, explaining that other changes exist but that this is the change most people will notice. She told the board that some new graduation requirements will not take full effect until next school year but that seniors could opt into the new pathways this year; she said 14 seniors had already opted in. Chancellor…
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