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tion of the excused absence policy that accepts telephoned excuses from parents in addition to written excuses. The proposed policy additions and changes will be acted upon by the Board at its next meeting.
Makela also discussed the possible need for liaison with local representatives to the state legislature regarding deficiencies in the Commonwealth’s evaluation of SOL tests. In his report later in the meeting, Superintendent Gangel confirmed that there is a problem with SOL test evaluation-the Commonwealth has, for example, lumped the fourth grade predictor testing results (fourth graders may take a fifth grade SOL test to predict their instructional needs) with fifth grade results, thus skewing the performance data. Dr. Gangel requested and received the authority to contact the State Department of Education to seek a solution to this problem. The Board also agreed to get local political representatives involved in this issue should Dr. Gangel’s communications get no posi
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