http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:27:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/05/01/clayton-county-schools-regain-accreditation-still-face-probation/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/05/01/clayton-county-schools-regain-accreditation-still-face-probation/#comments Fri, 01 May 2009 18:00:33 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=19250 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/05/01/clayton-county-schools-regain-accreditation-still-face-probation/feed/ 0 For nearly a year, students and teachers have been in limbo about status http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/03/24/welcome-back-clayton/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/03/24/welcome-back-clayton/#comments Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:56:07 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=17535 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/03/24/welcome-back-clayton/feed/ 0 County rehires 100 teachers weeks after they were laid off. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/03/15/clayton-county-school-board-fires-superintendent/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/03/15/clayton-county-school-board-fires-superintendent/#comments Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:27:44 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=17168 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/03/15/clayton-county-school-board-fires-superintendent/feed/ 0 Ousting comes months before the system tries to regain accreditation. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/10/06/clayton-county-schools-gain-accreditation/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/10/06/clayton-county-schools-gain-accreditation/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:40:10 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=6969 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/10/06/clayton-county-schools-gain-accreditation/feed/ 0 It’s not the same accreditation recently stripped from the 58,000-student school system by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, but Clayton officials say the seal of approval from the Georgia Accrediting Commission may help students get accepted to public and private colleges and universities in the state. Full release after the jump. From a schools system [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/perdue-boots-clayton-county-school-board-members/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/perdue-boots-clayton-county-school-board-members/#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:13:16 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/perdue-boots-clayton-county-school-board-members/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/perdue-boots-clayton-county-school-board-members/feed/ 0 Adios! Per the suggestion of an administrative law judge who said four members of the Clayton County school board violated their duties under law, Gov. Sonny Perdue today removed Michelle Strong, Louise Baines-Hunter, Yolonda Everett and Sandra Scott from their posts. All nine school board members who were on the board when the Southern Association of [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/clayton-county-schools-accreditation-mess-the-document-dump/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/clayton-county-schools-accreditation-mess-the-document-dump/#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:14:14 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/clayton-county-schools-accreditation-mess-the-document-dump/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/clayton-county-schools-accreditation-mess-the-document-dump/feed/ 0 If Clayton County Schools wants to regain its accreditation status, it’ll have to jump through a lot of hoops. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the accrediting agency that stripped the system of its status this morning, released several documents related to the decision. I’m posting them below. The first is a 20-page report [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/clayton-county-schools-lose-accreditation/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/clayton-county-schools-lose-accreditation/#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:56:32 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/clayton-county-schools-lose-accreditation/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/clayton-county-schools-lose-accreditation/feed/ 2 UPDATE: We normally don’t correct quoted sources, but I’ve done such to the copy below because of Todd’s comment. Says the AJC’s Megan Matteucci: The 50,000-student school system is the first in the nation to lose accreditation since 1969, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools announced today. … Qualifying Clayton students will still be able to get their [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/29/morning-headlines-103/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/29/morning-headlines-103/#comments Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:07:25 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/29/morning-headlines-103/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/29/morning-headlines-103/feed/ 0 A MILLION TO ONE: Natural-gas discoveries in northwest Louisiana have sent the price of an acre in some places from a few hundred dollars to $30,000 in a few months, creating a sudden class of millionaires in the middle of nowhere. LYNCHING RE-ENACTMENT: The victims’ surviving family members say they’re “troubled” by an Atlanta civil rights [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/23/self-high-five-of-the-day/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/23/self-high-five-of-the-day/#comments Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:34:29 +0000 Scott Freeman http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/23/self-high-five-of-the-day/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/23/self-high-five-of-the-day/feed/ 5 In today’s AJC, John Hollis reports from Clayton County about Sunday’s political forum that hosted most of the 26 candidates running for the school board. In the third paragraph, the story flatly asserts: “The candidates’ responses could be instrumental in helping voters choose as the July 15 election approaches.” Why’s that? The story doesn’t say. But maybe the [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/02/24/word-assclown/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/02/24/word-assclown/#comments Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:00:57 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/02/24/word-assclown/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/02/24/word-assclown/feed/ 0 Barring major reforms, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools will revoke Clayton County Public Schools’ accreditation in September. Clayton’s students will lose scholarship eligibility and will be unable to transfer their credits. In the past 20 years, only two school systems in the country have lost accreditation. “The Clayton County Board of Education is dysfunctional. [...]