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Teachers and parents urge board to restore reading intervention as trustee raises equity concerns between high schools
Summary
A reading-intervention teacher asked trustees to reverse cuts to intervention positions; Trustee Renee Longshore also presented data showing Granite Hills High may need greater support and asked staff to provide transfer and approval/denial data to assess equitable access.
At the April 10 meeting Brenda Cobbs, a district reading-intervention teacher, asked the Apple Valley Unified board to reconsider a recent vote that terminated some reading-intervention positions and to restore two reading-intervention teachers at each elementary school.
"We have many students moving on to the next grade level who are reading far below level," Cobbs told the board, describing her program’s small-group instruction, I-Ready diagnostic gains and changes in student confidence. She invited any trustee to…
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