5410 - PROMOTION, PLACEMENT, AND RETENTION

School District of Winter

Bylaws & Policies

5410 - PROMOTION, PLACEMENT, AND RETENTION

The Board of Education recognizes that the personal, social, physical, and educational growth of children will vary and that they should be placed in the educational setting most appropriate to their needs at the various stages of their growth.

It shall be the policy of the Board that each student be moved forward in a continuous pattern of achievement and growth that is in harmony with his/her own development.

The District Administrator shall develop administrative guidelines for promotion, placement, and retention of students which:

	A.	require that parents are informed in advance of the possibility of retention of a student at a grade level;
	B.	assure that efforts are made to remediate the student's difficulties before s/he is retained;
	C.	assign to the principal the final responsibility for determining the promotion, placement, or retention of each student.

Promotion from Grade 4 and Grade 8

For Unified, Common and K-8 Districts

The Board directs the District Administrator to prepare a list of specific criteria for promoting students from the 4^th and 8^th grades. The criteria shall include the student’s score on the 4^th and 8^th grade examination, unless the student has been excused from taking the examination; the student’s academic performance; the recommendations of teachers which shall be based solely on the student’s academic performance; and any other academic criteria recommended for Board consideration.

The criteria shall be submitted for Board approval prior to September 1, 2001. The criteria shall apply to charter schools in the District.

Beginning on September 1, 2002, the Board will promote only those 4^th and 8^th grade students who have satisfied the criteria.

118.33(6), Wis. Stats.