ANSONIA - State Rep. Linda M. Gentile, D-Ansonia, and state Sen. Joseph J. Crisco, D-Woodbridge, joined Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Education Commissioner Stephen Pryor Wednesday for a visit to John G. Prendergast Elementary School.
The event included a roundtable conversation with administrators and teachers on the progress their education program have achieved since it was approved by the state last year as an Alliance District.
“I would like
to thank the administrators and teachers for their commitment to our
students and I would like to thank the Governor and Commissioner Pryor
for visiting our school district,” said Gentile.
“It is apparent from the educators’ remarks that
the reading assessment pilot program is a very valuable and welcome
tool. This program provides these professionals with immediate data and
feedback that they can use to not only gauge
student performance and progress, but also make very specific critical
adjustments to a child's reading program so that that child can improve
their ability to learn," she said.
"I applaud our teachers’ efforts and their
enthusiastic support of the program and I hope
that we can not only continue with this successful pilot program, but
hopefully expand it.”
The education
reform package that Malloy signed into law in 2012 created the
Alliance District program, which targets the state’s under-performing
schools to receive additional Educational Cost
Sharing aid while developing comprehensive reform strategies to
turn the schools around.
“The bulk of
these state funds are aptly directed at literacy programs in Ansonia’s
primary grades, because early reading skills readily translate into a
student’s improved ability to learn other subjects
in every grade afterward,” Crisco said.
“Once a student
knows how to read, he or she can read about history, math, science –
even music – to broaden his or her base of knowledge.”
Ansonia
received an additional $539,715, or 3.6 percent in ECS funding,
increasing Ansonia’s total education grant to $15,571,383 for 2012-13.
This is taken from a press release from Gentile's office.
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