(Updated) Clayton County Schools regain provisional accreditation
May 1, 2009 at 2:00 pm by Thomas Wheatley in NewsThe AJC writes a thorough report:
Clayton County schools have been recommended for provisional accreditation, and a national commission will vote later this month on whether to accept the recommendation.
The announcement Friday by officials with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools comes nine months after the association yanked its affiliation with the suburban Atlanta system — making Clayton the nation’s first school system to lose accreditation in nearly 40 years.
The recommendation means SACS would back the system but require it to keep working on issues including leadership and governance — major problems cited by the association when it took action last year.
SACS would continue to monitor the school system for improvement and, later on, could nominate Clayton for full accreditation or cite further problems.
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