The Sumner County School Board meets tonight at 6PM at the School Board Office in Gallatin.
The agenda includes discussion of budget items, sick leave policy, and the grading scale -- taking into account new state law which requires that TCAP scores count toward a portion of a student's total grade.
The Kindergarten issue (discussed below) was previously approved at the March meeting.
State law (passed in 2012) requires that a child must be 5 years of age by August 31st, 2013 in order to enroll in Kindergarten in the 2013-14 academic year. Thereafter, a child must reach 5 years of age by August 15th in order to be eligible. Current policy allowed a child to enter Kindergarten as long as they reached age 5 by the end of September.
The state law allows Directors of Schools and/or School Boards to administer tests and/or establish criteria to determine Kindergarten readiness for those children whose parents would like to have them admitted if they don't meet the age requirement.
The Board has so far not recommended adopting any such criteria/procedure citing cost as an obstacle. The district would have to pay for and administer any test that it might use to determine eligibility/kindergarten readiness.
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I thought we had a uniform grading scale? Of course I just work in the county- what would I know.
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