Judgment Day for Clayton County
A decisions regarding accreditation could come tomorrow:
The National Accreditation Commission is expected to ratify a recommendation Saturday that Clayton County's accreditation be revoked Sept. 1.You can read the SACS report on the Clayton County School System here."It's a checks-and-balance in our system," said Jennifer Oliver, spokeswoman for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. "We anticipate the commission will support the recommendation to revoke the school system's accreditation."
To keep its accreditation, Clayton must meet nine mandates to overhaul the district before September.
"We're going to do everything we possibly can to protect the accreditation of the school district," schools spokesman Charles White said.
But many parents of the district's 52,800 students aren't so confident. Many are reviewing their finances and looking at their options: move, pay for private school or home-school.
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Future news quote: "We should have done everything we possibly could to protect the accreditation of the school district"
"Protect the accreditation". Spoken like a corporate lawyer. If they had "done everything we can" to educate the children of Clayton county, they would have never had an issue with their accreditation. Yet one more in an endless string of examples of government failures. Parents, wise up: Government schools are failing your children, even when they manage to "protect" their accreditation.
Posted by: Troy Casey | March 14, 2008 10:12 PM