Two of the coaches will be for English language arts and two for math, superintendent Theresa Kane said.
LUDLOW - School Superintendent Theresa M. Kane said she plans to employ four academic coaches when school opens Aug. 30.
Two of the coaches will be for English language arts and two for math, she said.
The school district had been employing six academic coaches to improve teachers’ instruction techniques.
The School Committee last spring voted to replace the six academic coaches with additional classroom teachers.
School Committee members said they felt it was more important to students’ academic performance to keep class size under 25 students.
Kane said she has determined that there will be sufficient federal stimulus funds to hire the academic coaches as well as the additional classroom teachers.
“We have sufficient funds,” she said.
Kane had said she is concerned the school district would fall back into the corrective action category in student performance on the state-mandated MCAS test without the academic coaches.
Currently, the school district is in a level 3 warning category for student math performance in some groups at Baird Middle School.
Kane said the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education had recommended that academic coaches be employed to assist teachers in developing better techniques to help students perform more consistently in their math and English language arts skills.