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Clairton considers realigning 6th grade

1/24/2013

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BY MICHAEL DIVITTORIO

Clairton City School Dis­trict officials are preparing to reconfigure grade levels for next school year to better align their curriculum for standardized testing.

School directors unani­mously approved at Wednes­day night’s meeting autho­rizing the administration to look into starting the process of redesignating sixth grade from the elementary level to the high school level.

“The elementary school’s still aligned to the (Penn­sylvania System of School Assessment), but they have star ted to align secondary schools to what they call a Common Core (state stan­dards),” superintendent Wayde Killmeyer said. “It’s a nationwide system of school curriculum align­ment. For those purposes, PDE aligns g rade six with the high school. We’ve con­sidered grade six part of our elementary school.

“If we reconfigure, all it’s going to do in name is put the sixth grade under the high school umbrella so that it’s on the same curriculum alignment as the rest of the high school. (There will be) no structural changes. Nobody’s going to move any classrooms. It’s almost strictly a paperwork thing.”

Killmeyer said reconfigur­ing was not mandated.

“The elementary school’s aligned their curriculum to the PSSAs,” Killmeyer said. “The state is moving away from PSSAs to the Keystone Exams. The Common Core is part of that move ... We could leave it the way it is, but then that would make things more difficult for the elementary principal, for the elementary teachers because we try to keep the same curriculum (kindergarten) through sixth (grade). Now sixth grade is going to have to be in a differ­ent alignment. We’re hoping to get that started for next school year.”

The school district recon­figured grade levels about five years ago when there was an elementary school with kindergarten through fifth grades, a separate mid­dle school with sixth, seventh and eighth grades, and a high school with ninth through 12th grades. It reconfigured to its current alignment of kindergarten through sixth grade in elementary, and seventh through 12th at the middle/high school level.

School directors were recognized at Wednesday night’s meeting as part of School Board Recognition Month.

District spokesperson Alexis Trubiani said stu­dents and staff throughout the district worked on dif­ferent projects to show their appreciation for the board.

Senior and student coun­cil representative Iyannah Grant presented school directors with gifts on behalf of her group.

Current board members are president Richard Liv­ingston, vice president Pau­lette Bradford, and school directors Robert Harrigan, Gloria James, Barbara Rob­erts, Gloria Ruffing, Roger Tachoir, Sue Wessel and Jen­nifer Williams. Livingston announced pay for substitute teachers was increased from $75 per day to $90 for the first 20 days and $105 per day after that for the remainder of the school year.

He said the pay was increased so the district would have more competitive wages for substitutes.


Michael DiVittorio is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-664-9161, ext. 1965, or
[email protected].
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