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La Crosse schools continue to work on challenging brightest

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Challenging bright students in class isn’t exactly a perfect science.

But the High Performance Learning program (HPL) in the La Crosse School District keeps evolving. The program is designed to challenge gifted students.

At a presentation to the school board Monday night, program director Jodi Brueggeman talked of finding ways to increase the number of students taking advanced math.

“We lock in ourselves into that data,” she said. “We needed to look at things differently and give other students opportunities bc their parents or their teachers are saying,
‘No they’re really ready, the data is not showing what they really can do.'”

Twenty-five percent of students in elementary and middle school are in HPL.

Born in Decorah Iowa. I've been a news reporter for the last 10 years, starting right out of college in Fort Dodge, Iowa. Other professional opportunities led me to Marshalltown, Iowa and Antigo Wisconsin, before I finally was afforded the opportunity here in La Crosse. I've been here since 2016. I also act as the voice of local sports, doing play by play of high school and college football and basketball. When not working I enjoy golfing.

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