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3 of 10 Lowndes School did not make AYP

winnersville — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:11:40 +0000

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 schools were the failing institutions.
The three schools did not meet the AYP standards because of two populations of students, Superintendent Dr. Steve Smith said.
“The most frequent reason was there was not enough student achievement in the areas of students with disabilities and the minority student area,” Smith said. “There was not enough gain with student achievement, specifically with some of the minority students at the high school.”
Clyattville Elementary School for both the Language Arts and Math CRCT tests scored below the 59.5 percent meets and exceeds range in each area.
The failing areas came from the students with disabilities, minority and economically disadvantaged sub-groups.
Pinegrove Elementary scored below the CRCT standards for the English Language Arts area in the students with disabilities sub-group.
The math CRCT scores had the minority and students with disabilities scoring below the 59.5 percent meets and exceeds standards.
The Georgia High School Graduation Test saw failing results for both the minority and students with disabilities sub-groups.
The minority sub-group scored 64.1 in both English Language Arts and Math and the students with disabilities score was 68.3, both below the meets and exceeds standards of 74.9 percent.
During the summer the schools scheduled day to day staff meetings that analyzed the test data and identified which sub-groups didn’t make AYP and why they did not, Smith said.
“We are in the process of formulating a school improvement plan and they are doing this on a school level and at a classroom level with personal enhancement plans,” Smith said.
The school improvement plan will help the schools address the overall deficiencies that exist with the institution.
This was the first year Pinegrove and Clyattville Elementary failed to make AYP. Lowndes High School had made AYP for the two years prior to this one, but had not made it before the previous consecutive years, Smith said.
The goal of AYP and No Child Left Behind is to get every child in school reading at grade level by 2014. Each year a school makes AYP the average a school is expected to meet is raised a little bit higher.
System wide, Smith said, he is happy with the AYP results, though he does expect improvement.
The AYP results for all schools in Georgia can be viewed at http://public.doe.k12.ga.us/ayp2008/search.asp.

With schools underperforming – Georiga cuts school funds

winnersville — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:53:52 +0000

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 announced the cuts Aug. 1 as part of a statewide strategy to deal with an expected $1.6 billion shortfall this fiscal year.

Other state departments are being cut 6 percent. The state also is withholding $428 million in homeowner tax cuts planned for this year to make ends meet.

State officials have said tax revenues are down nearly 1 percent for the fiscal year, which began July 1. That’s after a year of lagging revenues that forced Perdue to use $600 million in

Effective School Boards

winnersville — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:47:08 +0000

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 any governing body, from a city council, airport commission or coliseum authority, to even legislative bodies.

A task force – appointed by the State Board of Education with the encouragement of business groups – has until September to come up with recommendations for improving the operation of local boards of education. Another group in Augusta is tackling a similar problem in trying to determine how to create an effective panel to oversee management of its Coliseum Authority.

Their findings could apply to other instances.

Until 1992 when the constitution changed, grand juries named the members of local school boards, and voters picked the local superintendent. Now, board members are elected, and they hire the superintendent.

That change was significant, according to attorney Phil Hartley, whose Gainesville firm represents 120 of the 181 Georgia school districts. For one thing, school boards only used to concern themselves with finances. Now, candidates run with the intention of making substantive changes in how schools operate.

Concerns with operational details, though, lead to one pitfall many boards stumble into, namely meddling, warns Mark Elgart, president of AdvancED, the parent organization of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

SACS grants accreditation after sending teams of educators to evaluate each local district. Meddling is one of their most frequent complaints.

Of course, these evaluators are teachers and principals from other districts who wouldn’t want intensive input from their own boards. But it’s not just their bias. As Elgart says, can you imagine a member of The Home Depot’s board dropping by a store and instructing a clerk to stack the 2-by-4s in another aisle from where the manager specified?

That’s the kind of interference he says his evaluators discovered in board after board. Elgart attributes part of it to the change to elected board members.

“Since that time, I don’t think that is coincidence,” he said.

He points to two trends that have emerged. First, the post has become viewed as a political stepping stone for some with higher ambitions. Second, many members of boards in big districts that provide pay and benefits see the position as employment.

When confronted about his contributions to a dysfunctional board, “one board member told me, ‘find me another job, and I’ll move on,’ ” Elgart recounted. Besides, what kind of worker can you attract for the amount that board members take home, he asks.

Elgart is equally critical of board members who have no connection to the organization they serve, but who may only be looking to cut spending to hold taxes down or push some other narrow agenda.

The first challenge is getting good people to run, he said, adding he doesn’t favor returning to appointed board members. Presumably, voters will be able to select the best candidate if solid, volunteer-oriented people put their names on the ballot.

Current law specifies few qualifications beyond the requirement for 12 hours of training upon election and six hours of continuing training annually. However, board members who don’t get their training face no consequences.

Now, the education task force intends to concoct a better recipe for a good board.

Elgart has a few suggestions, such as no low-turnout special elections, no partisan labels and no meddling.

Professionalism, vision and ethics would be desirable but harder to attain, Hartley said.

“Some of that is very difficult to mandate in statue,” he said.

However, he would demand boards do strategic planning, calling it one thing he’s found in common among the best school boards he’s worked with. Such a plan would have specific objectives that voters could judge board members by when re-election time rolls around.

It’s not just government boards that break down. Federal regulators and Congress enacted new strictures for corporate boards following the collapse of Enron, and the business people on the task force are likely to borrow some ideas.

Phil Jacobs, who retired as AT&T’s top executive in Georgia, has served on 20 corporate and volunteer boards, including the Georgia Chamber of Commerce. He’s co-chairing the task force along with John Rice, vice chairman of GE, and Gary Price, managing partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers, two men who are on pace to serve on the same number of boards as Jacobs did by the time they retire.

Their results are due in three months, in time to be crafted into legislation by the two lawmakers on the task force, the chairmen of the House and Senate education committees, but too late for this year’s elections.

Dismal scores on CRCT for Georgia

winnersville — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:50:10 +0000

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 CRCT prompt state response

By Laura Diamond
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 05/20/08

Georgia public school leaders were so shocked by dismal scores on state math and social studies tests, the state superintendent released a statement Monday to prepare parents and others for the results.

According to the unofficial results, only 20 to 30 percent of Georgia’s sixth- and seventh-graders passed the state social studies exam. In math, about 40 percent of eighth-graders could be held back because they failed the test.

The state will release official scores from the Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests next month.

Parents whose children failed the math test will be notified by local schools. The state requires eighth-graders to pass the reading and math exams to move to high school.

Students who failed math exams —- as well as those who might have failed reading —- can retake the exam this summer. Schools will provide optional free classes to get them ready. Students who failed the social studies exam don’t face any consequences under Georgia law.

State Superintendent of Schools Kathy Cox said test scores in both subjects dropped because students took harder tests to match the state’s tougher and more rigorous curriculum.

“When you raise standards and expectations, it is not unusual to see a temporary dip in the percent of students who are meeting those expectations,” Cox wrote in a statement released Monday afternoon. “We have seen this in other grades and other areas of the curriculum.”

Cox was puzzled by the drastic drop in social studies, calling it “cause for concern.” Last year, about 83 percent of the sixth-graders passed the social studies test, as did about 86 percent of the seventh-graders, according to state figures.

She wondered whether the new social studies standards were clear and if some of the detailed test questions caught students off guard. Cox will ask a group of teachers and curriculum specialists to determine what may have happened.

“We have to do better with this,” Cox said.

Changes could be made to the test and to the material teachers teach, said Dana Tofig, spokesman for the state education department.

Parent Stephanie Kratofil said her daughter described the seventh-grade exams as some of the hardest tests she’s ever taken. The straight-A student told her mother the social studies exam included material never taught in class.

“There’s got to be something wrong with that test,” Kratofil said. “This is showing some horrible numbers for the state. It just doesn’t make any sense.”

While a failed math test carries more consequences than the social studies test, state education leaders had predicted only about 60 percent of students would pass the tougher exam, Tofig said. About 81 percent of eighth-graders passed the math CRCT last year.

Cox described the decline as a “temporary dip” because of the higher expectations placed on all students. This year every eighth-grader took algebra, while before only a small number took the class in middle school, she said.

The math scores are used to determine whether schools meet the testing goals required under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Schools that fail face increasingly severe sanctions, up to a possible takeover by the state.

Cox previously said she expected more middle schools to miss testing goals this year because of math scores. A report showing specifically how many middle schools missed the mark will be released in July.

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

winnersville — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:02:02 +0000

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 ground over the night as parents of pre-schoolers came out before sunset Friday to get in line for today’s pre-K registration.

Amid a number of changes made to the school system’s redistricting plan over the past months, the decision was made to hold all of this year’s pre-K registrations in one place, in efforts to alleviate confusion.

“We didn’t want people to go to the wrong school and miss out on the opportunity to enroll their kids in pre–K, because it is on a first come, first served basis,” said Heather Bonner, director of community relations.

To keep the process fair for all community parents, system employees must stand in line to register their children as well.

“The reason it’s first come, first served is because of state guidelines, which require it be done this way or as a lottery. Our system felt this was the fairest way to do it rather than pulling names out of a hat,” Bonner said. “And this process is 100 percent fair, no preferences.

This not fair unless you are wealthy enough and have the resources to participate in the “Camp out”.

Not only did the school allow for parents to camp out they helped out.

“We did anticipate that people would camp out actually, and so we have a police officer out through the night and port-a-potties on site as well,” Bonner said. “We even have some students at Clyattville who have decided to take advantage of this captive audience, and raise money for Relay for Life by selling coffee and donuts.”

Go read the whole article.

Lets see what happens in Atlanta when they do the same thing. From the AJC

It was just after midnight Monday when Jackie and Michael Cottrell parked their 40-foot motor home across the street from Mary Lin Elementary School.

Their plan was simple: Camp out to make sure Skyler gets into the highly coveted pre-k program at the school in Atlanta’s Candler Park. Even if that meant spending three days and three nights in the camper until registration begins Thursday.

“The whole process is kind of goofy, but what parent doesn’t do crazy things for their kid?” Michael Cottrell said.

Competition is tight for the program, which has room for 20 kids. The Cottrells started a registration line and secured the first spot.

When Branch Sinkule pulled up in his brother’s camper around 8 a.m. Monday he was number 27.

It’s just like a big happy urban camping vacation:

The camp-out has become an annual occurrence since at least 2004, as the school’s reputation for strong test scores has grown.

By Tuesday morning, Candler Park Drive resembled a camping ground with lines of RVs, grills, mess tents and picnic chairs.

And they police themselves and make up rules:

The atmosphere Tuesday was collegial. Signs on camper doors invited people to come in for a cup of coffee. Families shared hot dogs and hamburgers and set up play-dates for their children.

Still, the parents set some rules. They agreed to 15-minute bathroom breaks at reasonable intervals. Break the rule and you forfeit your spot. They also exchanged cell phone numbers. If called, you must appear within 10 minutes or lose your place in line.

Clement said he got a call Monday night because someone didn’t recognize the woman holding his spot. It was his mother-in-law.

“It’s really intense,” Clement said. “Nos. 21 and up are gunning to move up. They’ll catch you if you break the rules.”

But then folks really say what they mean:

Many parents use vacation and sick days to take time off from work. They acknowledged other families can’t afford to do that. Some parents said one mother gave up her place in line because no one could hold her spot while she was at work.

“It is a tough situation for many families,” said Kelly Schupp, who held spot No. 7. “We want to be neighborly and friendly, but this is about our kids.”

But it’s fair right?

“I know this is an archaic process, but it’s better than a lottery. You can earn your spot, rather than being lucky.”

Yeah, you EARNED that spot.

But alls fair in love and war, right? It’s not as if it is wrong or illegal to camp out? Right?

Superintendent Beverly Hall sent a letter to schools Monday in response to the unusually large crowd this year. Hall told school officials and parents that camping out is unfair and violates city ordinance.

“In order to ensure that all parents have a fair opportunity, the line of ‘campers’ will not be considered the line for purposes of prekindergarten enrollment,” Hall wrote.

Campers said parents historically respect the line, but didn’t know what would happen Thursday morning.

“It would have been nice to have been told this earlier, but we’ll see what happens,” Michael Cottrell said. “At least we’re already in the right place.”

Well what happened the night beforethe registration? Oh the horror!

Heather Kotler had camped out for more than two days when she read a letter saying all her work to get her son into the highly coveted pre-k program at Mary Lin Elementary could be for nothing.

She and nearly 30 other families parked campers and RVs across the street from the school in Atlanta’s Candler Park. They created a line for Thursday’s registration during which officials would fill the 20 openings. Spots are awarded first-come, first-served.

Then, Wednesday Kotler and others in line received a letter from Superintendent Beverly Hall saying the camp-out queue would not be the official registration line. She wrote parents who camp out violate city ordinances and create an unfair situation for families without the resources to do so.

Hall and other district officials said the Mary Lin crowd was an unusually large crowd this year. Parents agreed, but said the district had no right to change the rules in the middle of the game.

“This is the way it works every year,” Kotler said. “Everyone knows that.”

The annual camp-out dates back at least four years. Parents privately organize the line, but it has become such a tradition that the PTA raises money for the school by auctioning off items to make the wait more enjoyable. Kotler and her husband paid $200 in a PTA auction to use a camper for the long wait.

Parents said Wednesday evening Atlanta police officers ordered them to move all campers and RVs. Police barricades blocked parents from entering school property until officials were ready Thursday.

In all, 33 people registered. Kotler’s son, Brody Weiss, got a seat in the school’s pre-k. Not everyone who camped out was as lucky and some were put on a wait list.

“Shame on you!” one parent shouted at school officials. A sign hanging from one car read: “Superintendent Beverly Hall You Should Be Ashamed.”

It just not fair to these hard working campers! Right?

“It has gotten to be a little, what I consider, unfair,” Burks said. “After this week, I think we all realize it is time to review our process.”

Burks said it’s too soon to say what changes would occur.

Parent Julia Murray said changes are needed. Murray, who works full-time and couldn’t afford to camp out, arrived around 6 a.m. Thursday to register her son, who did not get in.

“We all don’t have spouses or families or bosses that will help us or let us camp out for days on end for this,” Murray said. “They need to come up with a new way to do this. It isn’t fair.”

How about doing the fair thing and have the lottery. Why is it that people have to have a competetion for you kids to go to school? Since it is a competition this means working class parents, single parents, sick parents and others who cannot take off work lose in this set up.

The old Parker Mathis is now the new Alternative School

winnersville — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:29:24 +0000

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 with no name.

Wow.

Farewell, Parker Mathis

By Kari L. Sands

— VALDOSTA — Former and present teachers, students, principals, faculty, staff and the community bid aloha Saturday to Parker Mathis Elementary School. The life of the school dates from 1955 until 2008 at 1500 Lankford Drive, and its new life will begin in Fall 2008 as Westwide Elementary School on James Road.
Hosted by Parker Mathis Elementary School Principal Creacy Sermons, the celebration featured performances by Parker Mathis students, including second grader Gabrielle Gardener, who sang the National Anthem, and a tour of and picnic at the Parker Mathis school facility.
Parker Mathis former faculty, staff, and all retirees were asked to stand to be recognized for their educational contributions to making Parker Mathis an outstanding school.
Ralph Brown, former principal of Parker Mathis from 1980-1996, shared colorful anecdotes of being an administrator at Parker Mathis. “As a principal, you must have the ability to change gears. You start the day with great expectations as a principal, but by lunch time, you are nursing a skinned knee,” said Brown. “You have to be a father, counselor, teacher, sheriff, and judge, and I accepted it all willing. Looking at the things that have happened under my tenure as principal, I am very proud. Parker Mathis helped promote parent-student lunchtime and Happy Fridays among other initiative programs. Parker Mathis also promoted the ‘Five R’s’ and if you maintain those aspects, it will carry you through life.”
“The Lowndes County school system was founded in 1871 and between then and now, there have been many students that have been associated with the educational success of Parker Mathis,” said Ron Irwin, former assistant to the superintendent.
“There are a lot of bricks and mortar involved in building a school or facility, but the character is given by students and teachers,” said Santiago Iturralde of Pinnacle Prime. “We are proud to have the responsibility of building the Westside future of education.”
Lowndes Board Member Jason Wisenbaker spoke briefly on the success of Parker Mathis, followed by superintendent Dr. Steve Smith. “There is a partnership that must exist between schools and student, and we want to maintain that relationship as we transition to our new Westside location. Parker Mathis is a jewel and its going to be here always.” Smith also conveyed that the old Parker Mathis building will be used to house the alternative school, New Horizons Academy, and staff development classrooms and offices.
During the reunion, the time capsule, slated to resurface the year 2020, buried in 1997 under the direction of former Principal James Goolsby, was dug-up by Assistant Principal Sam Lassiter and will be reburied at the grand opening of Westside Elementary School. Among the newest items to enter the time capsule will be a Pinnacle Prime Frisbee signed by the entire Pinnacle Prime team responsible for building the new school.
Beulah Hennly, former teacher from 1984-1999, said, “It’s wonderful to be back, and I always enjoy coming back. It’s just sad in a way to know that there will no longer be a Parker Mathis. We wish Westside could be renamed. But Parker Mathis has always been a great school and the tradition will continue even with the school.”
Parker Mathis Elementary thanked the following sponsors: Pinnacle Prime, Valdosta Mechanical, Sunset Farms, Bennett Law Firm, Sam’s Club, Merita, Pepsi, Miller Hardware, Kontroll, Publix, the PTO, Valdosta Fire Department, Bonita Cotton, Lowndes County Fire Department, Title I, LHS and Godfrey Funeral Home.

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

winnersville — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:38:15 +0000

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 schools behind.

State Superintendent of Schools Kathy Cox predicts more students will fail these harder exams and that will cause more middle schools to miss the testing goals required under federal law.

The No Child Left Behind Act punishes schools that repeatedly fail. Last year, 66 of the state’s 450 middle schools missed testing goals solely because of math scores. Cox said last week she expects the number of failing schools to increase.

Her prediction is based on more than the curriculum that middle schools phased in over the past few years. This year, the state also requires a higher percentage of students pass the exams for schools to comply with the federal law. Students are taking the math tests this month.

“States that have increased rigor are getting penalized under this system,” Cox said. “We made changes to make our schools better for our children. We did the right thing and we’re getting punished for it. This is a problem with NCLB.”

The law punishes schools that repeatedly fail and rewards those that make adequate yearly progress, commonly referred to as AYP.

Schools meet testing goals if a certain percentage of their students pass state exams. The law requires states to gradually increase their passing rate to the point that 100 percent of a school’s students must pass state exams by 2014.

Georgia’s passing rates, set in 2003 and approved by the federal government, required 58.3 percent of middle schoolers to pass the math test last year. Under those guidelines, it was scheduled to increase to 66.7 percent this year.

However, those rates were set before the state approved its new, harder math curriculum in 2005. The passing rates and the new curriculum don’t match, so Cox asked for a waiver in February to change the math passing rate to 60 percent this year.

Cox said the federal government refused, citing a clause in the law that prevents such a change.

Cherokee County Superintendent Frank Petruzielo said he understands why the state wanted to change the passing rates.

“We’re expecting more from our students and teachers, so why would we use the standards from the old curriculum?” Petruzielo said. “It sounds like the state is trying to prevent a situation where our kids may look dumber, when in effect they may be smarter. The fact the federal government said no reflects the same obstinate behavior we’ve come to expect from the people who thought No Child Left Behind was a good idea.”

The U.S. Department of Education declined to comment, saying no formal decisions have been made.

“We are still considering Georgia’s requests and cannot comment while the department is considering any state’s requests,” said Jo Ann Webb, a spokeswoman with the U.S. Department of Education.

The mammoth education law is President Bush’s signature domestic initiative. Signed into law in 2002, the act seeks giant gains in student achievement and holds schools accountable for reaching these goals. Schools that fail face increasingly severe sanctions, up to a possible takeover by the state.

Georgia overhauled its curriculum in response to years of criticism from teachers and education experts who said the standards were too weak. The biggest changes focus on math. Middle school math classes cover more new material and less review than before.

The state’s concerns focus on middle schools because elementary school students historically test well in math and high schools have yet to teach the new math standards. Also, students’ math test scores typically begin dropping in middle school because the material becomes more difficult.

Congress could have solved Georgia’s problem by reauthorizing the law this year, but lawmakers can’t agree on all the details. So the law remains unchanged.

Georgia isn’t the only state frustrated by the law’s one-size-fits-all approach, said Jack Jennings, president and CEO of the nonpartisan Center on Education Policy. The Washington-based group tracks the law’s implementation.

Jennings said Georgia was right to improve its curriculum, but the state will likely suffer because of it.

“If the state had kept the weaker standards, it wouldn’t be in this situation,” Jennings said. “This is a conflict of good goals. The U.S. Department of Education is being a stickler on its goal.”

Schedule of test scores for all of Georgia’s schools

winnersville — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:01:13 +0000

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 this school year. These reports come out on different dates each year but are released in a general time frame.

The department releases statewide data first. About 10 business days later the state releases details for each school district. After that comes local school-by-school data. In many cases, parents will get test scores for their child before the release of any state reports.

Here are when the results are expected for some important exams and benchmarks:

Georgia High School Graduation Test (GHSGT): The exam students must pass to graduate from high school. The test covers reading, writing, math, science and social studies. Expect statewide results between end of April through early May.

Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT): This test determines if students meet state learning standards. Students in grades 1-8 take these tests. Students in grades 3, 5 and 8 must pass some sections of the test to move on to the next grade. Expect statewide results early June. See 2007 scores.

End of Course Tests (EOCT): Tests students take at the end of eight classes: algebra I, geometry, U.S. history, economics, biology, physical science, American literature and ninth-grade literature. The results count toward 15 percent of a student?s final grade in the course. Expect statewide results late June.

Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP): How schools are held accountable through the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Schools must reach certain benchmarks on specifics test every year. Schools that miss the mark for consecutive years face increasingly severe sanctions, ranging from allowing students to transfer to better-performing schools to a possible takeover by the state. Expect this early- to mid-July. See 2007 results.