The 2005-2006 school year brings changes to the Poughkeepsie City School District.  During a spring Board of Education meeting, Superintendent Watson unveiled a plan to reorganize the 6th Grade in order to improve test scores at the Middle School and prevent a state takeover.  This pilot program involves significant changes to the 6th grade as it currently exists.  The highlights are as follows:

• Smith School would contain 4 sixth grade classes.  The space needed for these students would be obtained by shifting the third graders to Morse School where an addition would provide adequate room for Morse to hold K-3.
• Kreiger School would contain 4 sixth grade classes.  The additional space needed would be provided by the almost completed addition at Kreiger.
• Five 6th grade classes would remain at Poughkeepsie Middle School
• All 6th grade classes would be self contained regardless of location.  This is a change from the current model where students operate on a 9 period day changing rooms and teachers each period.  In the self contained model students would remain in the same room with the same teacher for all core subjects.
• The 9 period day at the Middle School would be reduced to 8 periods for the 7th and 8th grades.

This plan sounds simple enough but is a drastic change and will require many details to be resolved before the plan can work.  Faced with questions from both internal and external sources the administration released the below FAQ to address the many questions that these changes raised.

Click here to read the Sixth Grade Elementary Pilot FAQ

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