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Students tell Broward board they feel heard but flag bathrooms, tutoring and counseling gaps
Summary
Students and district staff presented results from the superintendent's student engagement initiative — 146,000 responses across three quarters — and urged fixes for bathroom cleanliness, drainage and access to counseling and tutoring. Board members directed facilities and academic teams to report back with implementation steps.
Students from 44 participating schools described where they feel supported and where the district can improve as staff presented findings from the superintendent's student engagement initiative. The district reported 146,000 student survey submissions and an average 78% response rate across three quarterly administrations, an AI-assisted ThoughtExchange tool and a 75% participation benchmark for participating schools, according to student leader Landon Spellberg (student advisor). "We could not have told the story of the survey without you," Spellberg told the student panel after the presentation.
The district summarized three initiative goals: establish principal-student advisory-board guides, implement a ThoughtExchange feedback loop in every high school and make key student-success information easier to find on district webpages.…
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