5410 Promotion, Placement, and Retention
5410 - PROMOTION, PLACEMENT, AND RETENTION
Optimal school achievement is obtained when students experience success in their daily activities and build upon successful experiences as they encounter new learning situations. All aspects of the student must be considered as grade placements are made.
DEFINITIONS
Optimal school achievement is obtained when students experience success in their daily activities and build upon successful experiences as they encounter new learning situations. All aspects of the student must be considered as grade placements are made.
DEFINITIONS
A. Promotion:
Occurs when a student is doing the caliber of work (grade level) that indicates the student has met the criteria established in Policy 5410 and restated below.
B. Placement:
Occurs when a student is not doing the caliber of work that indicates the student should be promoted to the next grade. However, the Student Intervention Team recommends and the building administrator concurs, that it is in the student's best interest to move to the next grade.
C. Retention:
Occurs when a student is not doing the caliber of work that indicates the student should be promoted to the next grade, based on the recommendation of the Student Intervention Team with the concurrence of the building administrator.
D. Student Intervention Team:
A Student Intervention Team is to be appointed by the District Administrator each year to consider situations in which students may not be promoted to the next grade or may not graduate. Such a team should include:
Occurs when a student is doing the caliber of work (grade level) that indicates the student has met the criteria established in Policy 5410 and restated below.
B. Placement:
Occurs when a student is not doing the caliber of work that indicates the student should be promoted to the next grade. However, the Student Intervention Team recommends and the building administrator concurs, that it is in the student's best interest to move to the next grade.
C. Retention:
Occurs when a student is not doing the caliber of work that indicates the student should be promoted to the next grade, based on the recommendation of the Student Intervention Team with the concurrence of the building administrator.
D. Student Intervention Team:
A Student Intervention Team is to be appointed by the District Administrator each year to consider situations in which students may not be promoted to the next grade or may not graduate. Such a team should include:
1. classroom teachers,
2. counselors and other support staff,
Final decisions on student promotion, placement, or retention rest with the District Administrator.
To implement Board policy, the following guidelines are to be utilized:
Elementary Level - Criteria for Consideration
When the Student Intervention Team is convened, the following criteria shall be considered:
To implement Board policy, the following guidelines are to be utilized:
Elementary Level - Criteria for Consideration
When the Student Intervention Team is convened, the following criteria shall be considered:
A. current level of achievement
B. potential for success at the next level
C. emotional, physical, social maturity
Middle School Level - Criteria
To be promoted the student must successfully complete a majority of the required academic subjects.
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B. potential for success at the next level
C. emotional, physical, social maturity
Middle School Level - Criteria
To be promoted the student must successfully complete a majority of the required academic subjects.
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5410 - PROMOTION, PLACEMENT, AND RETENTION
The Board of Education recognizes that the personal, social, physical, and educational growth of children will vary and that they should be placed in the educational setting most appropriate to their needs at the various stages of their growth.
It shall be the policy of the Board that each student be moved forward in a continuous pattern of achievement and growth that is in harmony with his/her own development.
Such pattern should coincide with the system of grade levels established by this Board and the instructional objectives established for each.
A student will be promoted to the succeeding grade level when s/he has:
The Board of Education recognizes that the personal, social, physical, and educational growth of children will vary and that they should be placed in the educational setting most appropriate to their needs at the various stages of their growth.
It shall be the policy of the Board that each student be moved forward in a continuous pattern of achievement and growth that is in harmony with his/her own development.
Such pattern should coincide with the system of grade levels established by this Board and the instructional objectives established for each.
A student will be promoted to the succeeding grade level when s/he has:
A. completed the course requirements at the presently assigned grade;
B. demonstrated sufficient proficiency to permit him/her to move ahead in the educational program of the next grade;
C. demonstrated the degree of social, emotional, and physical maturation necessary for a successful learning experience in the next grade.
The District Administrator shall develop administrative guidelines for promotion, placement, and retention of students which:
B. demonstrated sufficient proficiency to permit him/her to move ahead in the educational program of the next grade;
C. demonstrated the degree of social, emotional, and physical maturation necessary for a successful learning experience in the next grade.
The District Administrator shall develop administrative guidelines for promotion, placement, and retention of students which:
A. ensure students who are falling seriously behind their peers or who may not be promoted receive the special assistance they may need to achieve the academic outcomes of the District's core curriculum;
B. require the recommendation of the relevant staff members for promotion, placement, or retention;
C. require that parents are informed in advance of the possibility of retention of a student at a grade level;
D. assure that efforts are made to remediate the student's difficulties before s/he is retained.
The final responsibility for determining the promotion, placement, or retention of each student rests with the District Administrator.
Promotion from Grade 4 and Grade 8
For Unified, Common and K-8 Districts
The Board directs the District Administrator to prepare a list of specific criteria for promoting students from the 4th and 8th grades. The criteria shall include the student’s score on the 4th and 8th grade examination, unless the student has been excused from taking the examination; the student’s academic performance; the recommendations of teachers which shall be based solely on the student’s academic performance; and any other academic criteria recommended for Board consideration.
The criteria shall be submitted for Board approval prior to September 1, 2001. The criteria shall apply to charter schools in the District.
Beginning on September 1, 2002, the Board will promote only those 4th and 8th grade students who have satisfied the criteria.
118.33(6), Wis. Stats.
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B. require the recommendation of the relevant staff members for promotion, placement, or retention;
C. require that parents are informed in advance of the possibility of retention of a student at a grade level;
D. assure that efforts are made to remediate the student's difficulties before s/he is retained.
The final responsibility for determining the promotion, placement, or retention of each student rests with the District Administrator.
Promotion from Grade 4 and Grade 8
For Unified, Common and K-8 Districts
The Board directs the District Administrator to prepare a list of specific criteria for promoting students from the 4th and 8th grades. The criteria shall include the student’s score on the 4th and 8th grade examination, unless the student has been excused from taking the examination; the student’s academic performance; the recommendations of teachers which shall be based solely on the student’s academic performance; and any other academic criteria recommended for Board consideration.
The criteria shall be submitted for Board approval prior to September 1, 2001. The criteria shall apply to charter schools in the District.
Beginning on September 1, 2002, the Board will promote only those 4th and 8th grade students who have satisfied the criteria.
118.33(6), Wis. Stats.
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