3 of 10 Lowndes School did not make AYP

From the VDT. Seems like we are blaming this on a certain group.
Three out of 10 Lowndes schools miss the AYP mark
By Johnna Pinholster
August 06, 2008 09:41 pm
VALDOSTA – Three out of 10 schools within the Lowndes County School system failed to meet the Adequate Yearly Progress standards.
Clyattville Elementary, Pinegrove Elementary and Lowndes High [...]

With schools underperforming – Georiga cuts school funds

Wow, talk about dumb ideas…….
Ga. education officials looking at cutting $171M
Associated Press
Published on: 08/11/08
The Georgia Department of Education is trying to hammer out how to slash up to $171 million from the state’s K-12 budget.
The state school board is expected to take up the issue during its monthly meeting Wednesday and Thursday. Gov. Sonny Perdue [...]

Effective School Boards

From the Jacksonville Paper

Effective school boards don’t just happen, experts say
By Walter C. Jones,
The Times-Union

ATLANTA – The fact that a fifth of all local school boards have run into serious enough problems that their accreditation was endangered in the last 10 years demonstrates how dysfunctional governing boards can be.
And the problems could apply to [...]

Dismal scores on CRCT for Georgia

Local parents here are hearing bad numbers and that a lot of students are going to be in summer school this year.
Statewide 40% of eight graders are being held back because of math? Only 20- 30% of students passed social studies?
Our schools are not failing, they have failed.
Students miss mark on key test
Failure rates for [...]

Lowndes parents “camp out” for free Pre K slots. This is unfair and may be illegal

The practice of camping out either overnight or for days is unfair to parents who 1) cannot take off work 2) are single parents 3) do not have the resources to participate in the county club “camp out”.
This is from the VDT from April 18, 2008
VALDOSTA — The Lowndes High School campus was a camping [...]

The old Parker Mathis is now the new Alternative School

From the VDT. Something about them taking the school name with them and digging up the time capsule is troubling. I could see that if the school was being torn down, but they are going to house students there. So now the students that are sentenced to go there will be going to a school [...]

How “No Child Left Behind” will affect our middle schools

Our local middle schools will continue to be affected by this. The new test data comes out soon.

Georgia’s harder math tests could backfire

By LAURA DIAMOND
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 04/26/08
Georgia’s harder middle school math tests — created to match the state’s tougher new math curriculum — will probably have the unintended consequence of leaving some middle [...]

Schedule of test scores for all of Georgia’s schools

The AJC has put together a list of coming dates of test scores to be release for public schools in Georgia and some links.
Waiting for test scores? Here’s when they arrive
By LAURA DIAMOND
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 04/24/08Over the next few months, the Georgia Department of Education will release results from statewide exams students took earlier [...]