School Reopening Study Session

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The Monday, March 1, 2021 LASD Board meeting is a Special Study Session focused solely on School Reopening. It will start at 7:00pm and it will be held using the Zoom webinar platform.  To register in advance for the meeting, click here.  The entire agenda and supporting documentation for this week's meeting can be found here.

As a study session, this meeting will have no action taken.  Sandra McGonagle's presentation can be found under agenda item B.1 using the link above.  While it won't be the only topic of discussion, her presentation goes over what little data we have to understand LASD student academic progress during the pandemic and any comparison data we have from prior years.  In these unprecedented times, we simply don't have the data we have had in prior years, because standardized testing is not happening currently.

What does the data show? For K-5 students in the aggregate we are tracking to prior years in reading and writing.  For math, the same students also seem to be doing well, but we don't have data to track to prior years.  Our low socioeconomic status students (SED) are struggling, but not necessarily more than they may have in prior years.  That being said, we recognize that LASD will need to focus on this bridging the achievement gap of our SED students for the rest of the school year, Summer School, and the next school year.  This is constant struggle we have in our district and we remain ever vigilant in closing the gap.

Please note, these are just the highlights of what to expect at our 3/1/2021 meeting.  You can inform yourself more using link provided above.  As always, feel free to email me with any questions.