Barrow schools to appeal some AYP results

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Chris Bridges
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Wednesday, August 4. 2010
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The Barrow County School System will appeal some of its AYP results for the past year.

Claire Miller Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction said the system would appeal the ruling for Russell Middle School during the July 27 meeting of the board of education.

Miller also noted the retest scores for Bethlehem Elementary School had not been factored in yet so those results could change.

This year marked the fourth time in a row some Barrow schools did not meet AYP (adequate yearly progress). Winder-Barrow High School and Apalachee High School also did not meet AYP standards.

Since WBHS and AHS failed AYP for the second year in a row, they are now tagged as schools in “need of improvement.”

Superintendent Wanda Creel said she hopes parents will consider more than just AYP results when evaluating area schools.

Also at last night’s meeting, assistant superintendent for facilities Jake Grant said 15 schools spent less for electricity in May 2010 than the previous year.

“We are thrilled our schools are cooperating with us on this,” Grant said. “Without the schools trying, we are dead. We just need to celebrate these savings.”

The new school year begins Monday and that could have an impact on current power costs due to temperatures being in the 90s.
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#1 ColdHardTruth on 08/04/10 at 12:05 PM [Reply]
Barrow County should'nt waste the time, effort, or manpower to appeal anything. They need to get their butts or heads together and figure out why we fail AYP and fix the problem.
But now that would be sensible, so lets serve the system and waste time and money appealing the obvious and blame someone else.
#1.1 Anonymous on 08/04/10 at 03:29 PM [Reply]
Well the citizens of Barrow HAD the opportunity to REPLACE half the board a few weeks back. Since they didn't, it would appear YOU and only a HANDFUL of citizens think there is a problem.
#2 Jim on 08/04/10 at 06:37 PM [Reply]
They love to waste money and time on things that aren't the students fault it's the staff. That needs to take the blame for why they failed.
#3 Jan on 08/04/10 at 09:25 PM [Reply]
From reading the other reports, it looks like a big problem at the high schools were students who failed to stay in school and graduate. I think it is a lot of parents who need to get it together and make their kids stay in school. A teacher can teach, but if the parents have not instilled any expectation of success in their child or from their child and allow a child to quit school, neither the teachers nor the BOE can held at fault for that
#4 Anonymous on 08/05/10 at 07:58 AM [Reply]
There are way to many parents in barrow county that could care less about what there children are doing!! Teachers cannot control that.
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