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Plans for Summer: School, Enrichment, and Expectations (15 minutes)

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(ID # 7243) Educational Programs and Personnel Plans for Summer: School, Enrichment, and Expectations (15 minutes)

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▶ 1:06:00 Speaker 4: unanimous next up summer plans yes I would invite the superintendent to speak

▶ 1:06:07 Speaker 3: for plans for summer all right so we haven't changed much in the past three four years we have in front of you a memo that is very typical high school recovery many years ago we stopped running our own summer school it was not cost-effective what we do is we provide options for our students to make up credits at other summer schools and we provide the families with the list there's a sample list from last year attached to this middle school we do not do credit recovery we do skill recovery you do not need X number of credits to be promoted to the high school but you should have the skills that are required to be successful so we do skill recovery very few kids participate every year it seems to be less and less and so we'll see net last year we broke even so we were incentivized to keep going if we don't break even that's another conversation students without borders probably is our most popular program it's a great program for rising fifth graders to get to know the campus and the schools and sixth and eighth graders to stay on campus and have some great activities high school teachers happen to run it this year and last year and they do a phenomenal job extended school year is a is dependent on your IEP your team has to determine that you need extended school year services because of concerns about significant regression so that is determined and we pay for ESY because it is special ed services and there's the sample of the of the summer

▶ 1:07:48 Speaker 3: school that we offer the other thing that we have is as we've done every year we share with you the email that will go to families about summer learning expectations for reading math practice and for students who are entering accelerated programs the summer work that they need to do prior to the fall