School attendance zone forums this week

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Lorin Sinn-Clark
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Sunday, February 13. 2011
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Parents will get a chance to offer feedback on proposed changes to elementary school attendance zones for the “Apalachee Cluster” at a pair of public forums to be held on Feb. 15 at Yargo Elementary, and Feb. 16 at Auburn Elementary, from 6-8 p.m.

The affected elementary schools are Auburn, Kennedy, Yargo and Bethlehem because their students eventually attend Apalachee High School.

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Barrow’s graduation rates see decrease

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Lorin Sinn-Clark
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Friday, November 5. 2010
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Barrow County Schools bucked a state-wide trend in 2010 by graduating fewer students than in 2009.

While the state’s graduation rate of 80.8 percent crept over 80 percent for the first time ever, the percentage of seniors who graduated from Apalachee and Winder-Barrow High schools was 74.7 percent, down from 76.5 the previous year.

Barrow’s were also the only high schools in the 10-county Athens area with lower graduation rates in 2010 than 2009. [Full Story »] 

Final AYP results released

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Thursday, October 21. 2010
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Results from the amended adequate yearly progress (AYP) reports held some good news for the Barrow County School system. [Full Story »] 

BOE approves millage rate

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Monday, September 27. 2010
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The Barrow County Board of Education set its millage rate at 18.5 mills Tuesday night, the same it’s been since 2006.

The approval came at a called meeting the board held in order to allow the Board of Commissioners to approve the rate at its meeting later the same night.

Also at the meeting, the BOE voted to withdraw its application to the state for Qualified School Construction Bonds (QSCB).

The BOE had previously been positioned to qualify for QSCB, which was an allocation authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The allotment is not federal money or a grant, but locally borrowed funds that are set up so that those who bought the bonds may get federal tax credits. [Full Story »] 

Barrow students improve on ACT but still lag state average

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Sunday, August 29. 2010
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Students at both Barrow County High Schools improved on the ACT test last year, but still lagged the overall state averages.

Winder Barrow High School students had a composite score on the ACT of 19.3 in the 2009-2010 school year, up from 19.2 the year before.

Apalachee High School students had a composite score of 19.0 compared to 18.5 the year before.

Despite that improvement, local students lagged the state average of 20.7. [Full Story »] 

Still warns of tough times ahead

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Sunday, August 22. 2010
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Work on this year’s budget may have just concluded, but Barrow County Board of Education chairman Mark Still is already looking at what challenges lie ahead for next year.

“It’s going to be tough again,” he warned. “Things, as everybody knows, are still tough right now.”

Still was a guest speaker at the Monday night meeting of the Barrow County Republican Party. He took the opportunity to provide an update on issues currently facing the school system.

After cutting millions in expenditures from this year’s budget, Still said next year’s budget process will be just as difficult. [Full Story »] 

Barrow students back in class

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Susan Norman
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Saturday, August 7. 2010
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Barrow County Schools began the new school year Monday with a trimmed budget, fewer bus routes, and a new energy policy.

But its Superintendent Wanda Creel said the 12,152 students got to school, the transportation changes went smoothly, and the day went great.

“The new routes went very well for the first day of school,” she said. “All of our schools and the Transportation Department worked very well and quickly to solve issues that arose with students.

“We did several double backs to pick up students, but only one of them was a routing issue.” [Full Story »] 

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.
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BOE passes new budget

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Chris Bridges
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Sunday, July 4. 2010
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After crunching the numbers for weeks, months even, the Barrow County Board of Education officially passed its fiscal year 2011 budget Tuesday night.

By the time Tuesday night’s meeting arrived, there wasn’t much left to be discussed.

“I think we’ve beat this horse to death,” board member Lynn Stevens said. “Let’s vote.”

The budget passed by a 7-1 vote with Dan Cromer voting in opposition. Member Larry Ballard was not in attendance.

The FY 2011 budget will have expenditures of $90,742,855 with anticipated revenues of $89,184,154.
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CRCT results leave room for improvement

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Staff Writer
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Saturday, July 3. 2010
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Scores released earlier this month show that while Barrow students have made gains on the Criterion Referenced Competency Test (CRCT), the school system still lags behind a large percentage of other school districts within the state. [Full Story »] 
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