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District staff lay out proposed Student Progression Plan updates, including age-placement table and summer-bridge codification
Summary
Deputy Superintendent Derek Jensen presented redlined changes to the Student Progression Plan on May 5, clarifying grade-placement rules for students without records, codifying a summer-bridge program (minimum 100 hours), adding a private-pay on-campus option and shortening semester-exam makeup from 10 to 5 days (administrator exception).
Deputy Superintendent Derek Jensen walked the Manatee County School Board through a redline of the district's Student Progression Plan (SPP) at Tuesday's workshop, describing modest language changes and several notable policy clarifications the district proposes to advertise for public comment this month.
Jensen said the first substantive change is a grade-placement table intended to help schools place students who register with gaps in educational records or a two-year age discrepancy. The redline also reiterates that a child who will…
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