Strategies outlined to help boost test scores

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Red Wing School District officials announced a series of strategies Monday that will be used in response to state testing results.

Though overall proficiency in math and reading did meet benchmarks toward federal No Child Left Behind status, many groups within the district did not.

Administrators will submit a plan to the state's education department detailing how they hope to upend failing marks. Those include:

• Aligning curriculum to state test criteria.

• Vertical K-12 alignment — streamlining curriculum steps among schools.

• Compiling assessment data from teachers and students.

• Continue developing intervention strategies.

Curriculum Director Kathy Radmer said other methods will likely come into play.

"It's a very fluid process," she said.

School Board member Tim Kelly recommended an additional teacher-evaluation program as an additional response.

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