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Board hears sharp split over McGraw Hill math pilot; administrators to verify vendor fixes and continue elementary use
Summary
After a multi-school pilot and a 50-page teacher survey, Eastern York administrators urged the board to validate recent vendor fixes while continuing the elementary program for 2026–27; board members expressed strong concerns about digital-assessment quality, accessibility, and secondary alignment.
Administrators and teachers on April 18 described mixed results from a district pilot of a McGraw Hill math suite (ALEKS/ALEKS Adventure, Reveal and MH Plus) and urged a cautious, evidence-driven next step.
"Our math scores definitely had flatlined a little bit," an administrator summarized in the presentation of the survey results, pointing to district and statewide trends and why the district sought an off-the-shelf program in addition to locally developed materials. The administration said the pilot surfaced three major technical problem areas — incorrect or tricky assessment language on exit slips, poor primary-level text-to-speech behavior and the platformdifficulty capturing partial credit on multistep problems.
Those technical problems were central to the board discussion. "If a student…
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