Plan to turn around district called great plan
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Lori Cunningham
shows confidence in a plan that would help the Polk County School District to lift the grade level of the district. “It’s one of the best plans I’ve seen," she said.
"We have broken kids here and we need to do what Nashville did to fix them," PTA member Trish Pfeiffer said when the school district plan was unveiled.
On Nov. 12, the Polk County School Board is expected to OK its latest strategic plan to raise the overall District school system’s state grades from a C to an A within five years while also pursuing a Nashville plan to further integrate the business, health care and student support community into its operations.
The strategic plan was open from Oct. 22 to Oct. 31 for citizen comment to include suggestions from the public via the district’s website.
