Tennessee Drop-Out Factories

Johns Hopkins University Center for Social Organization of Schools released a national study that attempted to identify high schools that fell below their definition of an accepted number of students that started 9th grade at a school but did not complete their 12th grade at that school. The study, in my opinion had a number of flaws - especially the data that was analyzed from Tennessee. I

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

December Column for Roane County News

(This is a column published in Roane County News) Imagine if your job was to manage the biggest mass transportation system in the county, the biggest food service business in the county, keep maintenance up on eighteen large buildings totaling 1.2 million square feet that are on average 41 years old, manage over 1,000 networked computers, manage the biggest composite library in the county,
Read more

Why I Voted To Extend Directors Contract

At the November, 2007 School Board meeting, the Board voted 7-3 to extend the contract of Director, Dr. Toni McGriff for two more years. This means that she will be the Director of schools here for 3½ more years. I was one of the seven who voted to extend her contract. I feel there is a lot of misinformation in the community about the job the Director is doing, so I wanted to provide the
Read more

Meeting with School Support Organizations

Here is a letter from the Director of Schools to school support Organizations. In the 2007 General Assembly, a number of laws were passed that affect education. One of those laws is Public Chapter 326, Acts of 2007 which enacts the "School Support Organization Financial Accountability Act". (Another Link and a PowerPoint Presentation) This law requires local education agencies to adopt a policy
Read more