Gazette Letter: AP exams not a priority for Starr

...Take, for example, one entire class of third-grade students from Cedar Grove Elementary School. These students were advanced enough that they studied third-grade math last year while enrolled in second grade. This year, however, Curriculum 2.0 has been implemented in both second and third grades. An excerpt from a letter sent by Principal Lee Derby to the parents of these students describes the issue faced this year because of the new curriculum: 

“One of the requirements of Curriculum 2.0 is that all students be enrolled in on-grade-level math, thereby prohibiting us from continuing our former practice of enrolling students in above-grade-level math courses, as we did last year with your child.”...

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