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Stu Johnson

Fayette Schools superintendent: more needs to be done to raise academic scores among all students

The results from a return to standardized testing across Kentucky are being released Tuesday. The head of Fayette County’s public schools says a three-pronged approach will be used to try to raise scores among all students.

Student accountability assessment was put on pause during the first two years of COVID. One of the three steps planned in Lexington to foster higher scores is a district-wide approach to academic instruction. Fayette Schools Superintendent Demetrus Liggins said that ability came when the state legislature allowed control of curriculum and instruction to go through the superintendent and not school councils for the first time in 30 years.

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