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Sumner County director-designate, staff outline timelines and parent outreach for proposed third-grade retention law
Summary
Dr. Langford and district staff briefed the board on how Sumner County Schools will notify families, run assessments and plan summer programming if the legislature enacts a third-grade retention law; staff estimated roughly 400 students could be at risk and described logistical challenges for tutoring and summer sites.
Dr. Langford, the school district's director-designate, told the Sumner County Board of Education the district is preparing communications and operational plans tied to the state's proposed third-grade retention requirements and will keep parents informed as legislative details firm up.
"There's the things we know, there's the things we know we don't know, and there are the things that we don't know we don't know," Dr. Langford said, framing the presentation and turning the update over to Miss Sassen, who described the district's home literacy reports and assessment timeline.
Miss Sassen explained the two measures the state is using to screen students for retention: EasyCBM (the district's normed universal screener given three times a year) and TNReady. She said Tennessee released a formula to combine EasyCBM sub-scores into a composite score and that the district also uses…
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