CRCT testing is going on from Wednesday to Friday, and report cards go home Wednesday for high school students.
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Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity members are mentoring middle school students as part of its Get Right Program on Robotics Technology.
Since 1996, the Alpharetta-Smyrna Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi has conducted its mentoring and tutorial program with the goal of making a positive impact among male middle school students. Since then, over 350 youth have been guided to more positive social interactions and higher scholastic pursuits. Today, the Kappa collaboration with the Georgia Tech Research Institute is conducting a special seminar for 43 middle and high school students enrolled in its Guide Right Program on Robotics Technology at the Food Processing Technology Division (FPTD) at Tech. Most students come from Cobb schools. FPTD develops next-generation technologies for processing efficiency and operational enhancement in the food processing and general …
One involved parent writes about his frustrating experiences in public schools of Cobb County.
James Young, a member of the South Cobb Academic Taskforce and an Austell parent, sent the letter below to each Cobb Board of Education member before the last school board meeting on Jan. 26. Only Cobb BOE Chairman Scott Sweeney responded. An Education Story… In 2003, my wife and I were told that both of our kids (then 2 & 4) were developmentally challenged and had a reduced capacity to learn. My daughter, the youngest, was still not talking and my son was slow to retain information. In 2005, it was again forecast that each would have difficulty learning and that we should prepare for a "long road to travel" in educating them. In 2007, we left the public school system because a new, formally trained teacher could not effectively teach our …
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The Cobb Board of Education did not discuss or vote on the proposal to bring 50 Teach for America teachers to South Cobb at the board's Thursday night meeting.
It was pulled. After a week of constituents vocalizing their support and opposition, after they flooded the Cobb Board of Education with emails and calls, and even after a local newspaper made its opposition known, the proposal to bring 50 Teach for America teachers to South Cobb was pulled from the Board of Education’s agenda on Thursday. District Superintendent Dr. Michael Hinojosa withdrew the item before the meeting began, and before three South Cobb parents spoke in support of it. The board did not have a chance to discuss the item. Vice Chairman David Morgan said now that the proposal has been pulled, it is unlikely to resurface “any time soon.” Hinojosa told the Marietta Daily Journal, “It’s going to come back. It won’t come back …
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Three South Cobb schools remain in 'Needs Improvement' status.
Cooper Middle and Clay Elementary are two of the nine Cobb County schools to make Adequate Yearly Progress after factoring in CRCT summer retesting results. Including these additional nine schools, 90 of Cobb’s 110 schools made AYP. According to a CCSD news release, graduation rates for specific student groups was the primary reason that five of Cobb’s 16 high schools– South Cobb High, Pebblebrook High, Campbell, McEachern and Osborne– did not make AYP. Of those 20 schools that did not make AYP, seven are in South Cobb (including Smyrna’s Russell Elementary which has many students from South Cobb homes.) Eighty-eight (88) percent of Cobb elementary schools (60 of 68) met standards for adequate progress; 76 percent of middle schools (19 …
The expansion and paving of the Sanders Road bus shop would leave only $100,000 for other overruns.
Improving infrastructure, cutting maintenance costs, increasing parking space and improving driver safety are some of the reasons the Cobb County School District’s transportation department wants to spend $1.1 million to pave its Sanders Road bus shop off Powder Springs Road in Marietta. The Board of Education discussed the paving project, set to be awarded to low bidder Baldwin Paving of Marietta, during its work session Wednesday. The project’s cost grew by $400,000 when its scope increased to add 50 bus parking spots, which would require clearing the tree-lined lot and moving dirt to flatten the proposed back lot, said Doug Shepard, the chief administrative officer for the district’s SPLOST projects. If the board decides to pave only …
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Chief Financial Officer Mike Addison also predicts budget shortfalls for the following three years.
Developing four years of budget projections in October is “cruel and unusual punishment of your CFO,” Cobb County School District Chief Financial Officer Mike Addison joked at Wednesday’s Board of Education work session. Despite lacking state and local revenue information, Addison offered an initial prediction for fiscal 2013 of a $72.2 million shortfall in an $890 million budget. That prediction includes the transfer of $20.4 million from the SPLOST II contingency fund. Addison said a $34 million reduction in reserve revenues from fiscal 2011, which ended June 30, caused the largest hole in the budget forecast. He also predicted a $4.4 million decrease in local revenues from fiscal 2012 to fiscal 2013 and an approximately $40 …
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The district schools' will be required to post their evaluation scores like restaurants post health scores.
Parents will soon see large signs with grades in the windows of their children’s schools. The signs will be similar to those posted in restaurants with health scores. Cobb school board member David Morgan told about 35 constituents about the new evaluation model at his first monthly town hall meeting of the school year on Saturday at Cooper Middle School. Morgan said every district school would have one number reflecting its overall score, which reflects its performance in specific areas. Just like the health scores posted in restaurants, beneath the overall score will be the school's scores in various areas. This one-page evaluation will be available to parents and will be rolled out this school year, Morgan said. “Test scores will be …
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Tikki Bester
9:02 am on Thursday, February 23, 2012
Bravo James for your post. I totally agree that we are in need of alternative solutions in education and parental involvement is key. more ›