What are the emergent
challenges of ISD?
Preserving class sizes
Franklin's Title I
Waiver provided resources to keep class sizes down. However,
recent changes in student demographics threaten to disqualify
Franklin for Title I funds. Principal Hoffman decided to reallocating
resources from other areas to continue preserve ISD classroom.
Wisconsin
SAGE program, which was designed to create smaller classrooms
, supplemented the loss of Title I services, but the current
state budget situation puts SAGE in question.
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Demographic shift
Franklin's student population now includes more Latino children.
State law requires LEP students must be provided with a bilingual
education program to teach reading and math in Spanish. ISD's
goal of heterogeneous grouping is thus threatened by segregating
Latino students into special classrooms.
Principal Hoffman responded by grouping Latino students into
one first/second grade classroom and assigning a second teacher
with predominantly European American students to the same
classroom to maintain her goal of heterogeneous classrooms.
Here Deb tells more about how she is dealing with
this challenge.
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Partly cited from Capper, C.(forthcoming). Social justice through
resource reallocation and academic assessment. In Capper and Young(Eds.) Educational Leaders for Social Justice. Teachers College Press.
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