Bright Local continues work to improve ACT scores
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Bright Local School District is working to improve its ACT test strategies, superintendent Mike Bick told The Times-Gazette Wednesday.
During the district’s Dec. 16 board of education meeting, Bick requested that the board accept two contracts with the Brown County Educational Service Center (ESC): one contract for ACT test strategies and an agreement to provide services for safety and security.
The contract for ACT test strategies would provide Bright Local staff with professional development and strategies that would help enhance students’ ACT scores.
During the district’s October regular board of education meeting, Whiteoak Jr./Sr. High School Principal Jason Iles reported that high school administrators were working to embed ACT standards into curriculum and to add ACT preparatory opportunities for Bright Local students.
ODH: Increased spread outside school setting
By McKenzie Caldwell - mcaldwell@aimmediamidwest.com
Editor’s Note This story has been updated to clarify that the Ohio Department of Education does not collect data on COVID-19 in schools.
The Ohio Department of Health (ODH) continues to report limited COVID-19 spread in a classroom setting, though there has been an increase in community spread due to informal gatherings outside of school, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine stated this week.
The Ohio Department of Education (ODE) also surveys how districts’ students are learning whether through in-person, hybrid, or remote learning plans though schools are not required to report this information, a representative of the ODE told The Times-Gazette. The data from these surveys are not considered complete or official.