{"id":134,"date":"2025-02-15T14:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T19:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/66-228-46-199.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/?p=134"},"modified":"2025-02-15T14:50:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T19:50:34","slug":"focusing-on-our-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"Focusing on our Core"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sutton needs to focus on its core Math\/English\/Science needs. With underperformance as a District on our MCAS for Math\/English\/Science our system needs to make tough choices about where we are focusing our valuable educational resources. The school and school committee need to take a look at our course offerings and help refocus the curriculum to create opportunities where our students can succeed in these critical areas. Where there are resource gaps we need to partner with organizations and institutions to create pathways for our students to excel in these areas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"532\" src=\"http:\/\/66-228-46-199.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CleanShot-2025-02-15-at-14.25.51@2x-1024x532.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-135\" style=\"width:807px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CleanShot-2025-02-15-at-14.25.51@2x-1024x532.png 1024w, https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CleanShot-2025-02-15-at-14.25.51@2x-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CleanShot-2025-02-15-at-14.25.51@2x-768x399.png 768w, https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CleanShot-2025-02-15-at-14.25.51@2x-1536x799.png 1536w, https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CleanShot-2025-02-15-at-14.25.51@2x-2048x1065.png 2048w, https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CleanShot-2025-02-15-at-14.25.51@2x-600x312.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"564\" src=\"http:\/\/66-228-46-199.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CleanShot-2025-02-15-at-14.26.58@2x-1024x564.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-136\" style=\"width:810px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CleanShot-2025-02-15-at-14.26.58@2x-1024x564.png 1024w, https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CleanShot-2025-02-15-at-14.26.58@2x-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CleanShot-2025-02-15-at-14.26.58@2x-768x423.png 768w, https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CleanShot-2025-02-15-at-14.26.58@2x-1536x847.png 1536w, https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CleanShot-2025-02-15-at-14.26.58@2x-2048x1129.png 2048w, https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CleanShot-2025-02-15-at-14.26.58@2x-600x331.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"492\" src=\"http:\/\/66-228-46-199.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CleanShot-2025-02-15-at-14.28.54@2x-1024x492.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-137\" style=\"width:710px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CleanShot-2025-02-15-at-14.28.54@2x-1024x492.png 1024w, https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CleanShot-2025-02-15-at-14.28.54@2x-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CleanShot-2025-02-15-at-14.28.54@2x-768x369.png 768w, https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CleanShot-2025-02-15-at-14.28.54@2x-1536x737.png 1536w, https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CleanShot-2025-02-15-at-14.28.54@2x-2048x983.png 2048w, https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CleanShot-2025-02-15-at-14.28.54@2x-600x288.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Source (<a href=\"https:\/\/educationtocareer.data.mass.gov\/stories\/s\/MCAS-Data-Trends\/qagd-r9iy\">https:\/\/educationtocareer.data.mass.gov\/stories\/s\/MCAS-Data-Trends\/qagd-r9iy<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sutton needs to focus on its core Math\/English\/Science needs. With underperformance as a District on our MCAS for Math\/English\/Science our system needs to make tough choices about where we are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-common-sense","category-curriculum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vote.matera.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}