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Parents and experts urge Northshore to keep self-contained HiCap classes, demand data before integration
Summary
At a lengthy public-comment period on April 27, parents, teachers and researchers told the Northshore board the proposed integrated middle-school model risks diluting accelerated instruction for highly capable students and urged the district to provide rigorous longitudinal data and stronger training before implementation.
A series of parents, educators and researchers asked the Northshore School District board on April 27 to preserve self-contained highly capable (HiCap/EAP) classes for middle-school science and social studies unless the district can demonstrate the integrated model delivers equal or better outcomes.
Dr. Austina DeBante, a founder of the High Cap Parents Council and president of the Washington Coalition for Gifted Education, told the board the proposed integrated model "is tantamount to removing highly capable services in these subjects," and warned that the change runs…
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