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61 schools make improvements necessary to exit Priority and Focus lists 
MEDIA CONTACT: Meghan Frick, GaDOE Communications Office, (404) 463-4246, mfrick@doe.k12.ga.us -Follow DOE on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram December 5, 2017  The Georgia Department of Education today announced that 61 schools have exited the Priority and Focus Schools lists, due to recent across-the-board CCRPI increasesand Georgia's rising graduation rate. As part of Georgia's ESEA waiver, which granted flexibility from some provisions of No Child Left Behind, the GaDOE was required to identify Priority and Focus Schools. Priority Schools represent the lowest-performing 5% of Title I schools based on achievement data, plus schools with a graduation rate below 60% for two consecutive years. Focus Schools represent the lowestperforming 10% of Title I schools based on achievement gap data. That data examines the gap between a school's lowest performing 25% of students and the state average, and the progress those students are making. "We continue to see that underperforming schools can improve and move the needle for their students, even when they face difficult odds," Superintendent Woods said. "And we've seen once again that intensive, intentional partnerships between schools, districts, communities and our Department can equip schools with the resources they need to improve student achievement. These schools worked directly with our DOE staff and with Georgia RESAs, and their leaders and teachers deserve immense credit for the progress they've made. We view school improvement as a primary responsibility of our entire agency  not just the school improvement division  and with that focus guiding us, I'm confident we'll continue to see schools making gains." Click to view the schools that no longer meet the definition of a Priority or Focus school and have made the requirements to meet the exit criteria. As Georgia transitions to the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), GaDOE will no longer identify Priority and Focus schools. Instead, GaDOE will be required to identify and support Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) and Targeted Support and Improvement (TSI) schools beginning in 2018-19 (CSI) and 2019-20 (TSI). The criteria for CSI and TSI schools are proposed in Georgia's draft ESSA plan (pg. 39-40), which is currently awaiting approval from the U.S. Department of Education. Click here for additional information about the Priority and Focus criteria. Click here for information on rising CCRPI scores in Georgia. Click here for information on Georgia's rising graduation rate. 
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