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District selects STAR interim assessments and proposes expanding GED credit-by-proficiency
Summary
Administrators chose the STAR interim assessment for K–8 and proposed increasing high school credits awarded for passing GED tests to align with practices in comparable districts, citing the GED pathway as a successful 'lifeline' for older students.
District administrators said they will move to the STAR interim assessment for K–8 interim testing as part of the district's response to SB 141 accountability requirements, noting cost and contract considerations with IXL. "So we chose to go with the star interim assessment," an administrator said, adding the change responds to state accountability needs and existing contracts with IXL.
Separately, staff proposed changing the district's credit-by-proficiency policy for GED testing so that passing GED sections could yield more high school credits (moving toward models that grant more credits per test, such as a 9-credit total model used in other districts). The superintendent said the GED program has had strong pass rates after practice work and that the change would be implemented with a clean start in the fall so prior students are not penalized.
