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Stockton Unified board adopts grading recovery policy and approves routine contracts, with several unanimous votes
Summary
Trustees approved a policy to allow grade recovery (removing a lower grade from GPA when a student retakes and earns a higher grade), advanced a promotion/retention AR, and approved multiple contracts, field trips and facility agreements. Most votes were unanimous; the district moved its statutory reserve to a flat $30.5 million by 6–1.
The Stockton Unified School District board took several formal actions Tuesday including a policy change to allow students to recover GPA by retaking courses, adoption of a promotion/retention administrative regulation first read, and approval of multiple contracts and operational items.
Grades policy: The board adopted revisions to Board Policy/AR 5121 that allow a student who retakes a course and earns a higher grade to have the lower grade removed from GPA calculation and replaced on transcripts with a notation (P or R). Staff said the change is intended to allow students to recover GPAs,…
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