The lawsuit claims that the district’s ninth grade math placement is based only on the student’s eighth grade math class results, despite the district stating that it considers more factors.
Justin Swasey, a 9th-grade math teacher at Headland Middle School, earned the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. Headsets and radios were also reported stolen from ...
Before the pandemic, about 800 students per semester were placed into that class, the equivalent of ninth grade math. By 2021, it swelled to nearly 1,400. “It’s not just that they’re ...