By Nick Sestanovich

With concerns over the global coronavirus pandemic closing Dixon school campuses for the remainder of the academic year, the school board will consider an update to the board policy that would temporarily change the grading system to pass/no pass at its Thursday meeting.

Since mid-March, Dixon Unified School District campuses have been closed and the district has shifted to a distance learning model allowing students to still do coursework from home. This sudden change has presented “some unique challenges to our charge to help students and parents/guardians understand performance, accurately evaluate student performance in a timely manner, and base grades on consistent observation of the quality of student’s work and his/her master of course content and district standards,” per a staff report by Nick Girimonte, assistant superintendent of educational services.

Source: Coronavirus: Dixon school board to consider temporary pass/no pass grading system – The Reporter