- Collection:
- Georgia Government Publications
- Serial:
- Press release (Georgia. Department of Education)
- Title:
- Press release [Apr. 11, 2017]
- Creator:
- Georgia. Department of Education
- Contributor to Resource:
- Georgia. Department of Education
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia. Department of Education
- Date of Original:
- 2017-04-11
- Subject:
- Georgia
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- publications (documents)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Web links within this document may eventually become inoperable
- External Identifiers:
- Call Number GA E300 .P1 P7 2017/4-11
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:dlg_ggpd_i-ga-be300-b-pp1-bp7-b2017-s4-h11-belec-p-btext
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ggpd_i-ga-be300-b-pp1-bp7-b2017-s4-h11-belec-p-btext
- Language:
- eng
- Holding Institution:
- University of Georgia. Map and Government Information Library
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MEDIA CONTACT: Matt Cardoza, GaDOE Communications Office, (404) 6517358, mcardoza@gadoe.org -Follow DOE on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram April 11, 2017 The Georgia Department of Education today announced that 74 out of 243 schools have exited the Priority and Focus Schools lists. 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 extent to which that gap is closing. "Every school that made the necessary improvements to exit Priority or Focus School status deserves to be commended," State School Superintendent Richard Woods said. "The ongoing work of these schools, coupled with supports from GaDOE staff and RESAs, continues to move the needle and prove that underperforming schools can improve, even when they face difficult odds." Click here for the list of schools that were removed from the Priority and Focus lists because they no longer meet the definition of a Priority or Focus school and have made the required improvements to exit. 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. The criteria for CSI and TSI schools are currently being developed in consultation with Georgia's ESSA working committees. A draft of the criteria will be available for public comment this summer, prior to Georgia's submission of its ESSA plan to the U.S. Department of Education in September. Click here for additional information about the Priority and Focus criteria.
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