Georgia alert; a look at education's role today, 1971 November - December

71
' t oilton Man Is Georgia Teacher 2YYear

er of the gifted and a

((

vocational agriculture

) a's two top teachers in the

1Y /'L I eacher of the Year Program.

Carrollton High School English

teacher J . Ferrell Drummond was

selected as the Teacher of the Year

and Thomas C. Weaver, teacher at

Jackson County High School, is the

runner-up.

The two teachers were honored

at the November meeting of the

State Board of Education by board

chairman Roy Hendricks of Metter.

"These two men represent the

hundreds of ftne teachers we have

in Georgia/' said State School Super-

intendent Jack P. Nix at the awards

ceremony. "I feel sure the out-

standing record of Mr. Drummond

and the years of devoted service he

has given to his profession will

make him one of the top contenders

for the National Teacher of the Year

award."

The top teachers, their wives and

Carrollton School Superintendent

H. M. Fulbright and his wife were

guests of the Southern Educators

life Insurance Company for dinner

and overnight in Atlanta November

23. Southern is co-sponsor of the

Teacher of the Year program with

the Georgia Department of Education.
The outstanding t~achers were

selected from a record number of

entries. Nominations were received

from 35 system superintendents.

Selection of the winners was made

by a panel of ftve judges represent-

ing a cross-section of lay and pro-

fessional educators and including a

student and a representative from

the PTA . The judges were Dan Casey,

Jr. of Rockmart, state president

Future Teachers of America; William

F. Cummings, also of Rockmart,

Classroom Teachers Association;

Edward V. Deaton, Columbus, presi-

dent, Elementary School Principals;

Lamar Maret, Atlanta, first vice-

president, Georgia Congress of

Parents and Teachers and R. L.

Sheets, Roberta, superintendent of

the Crawford County School System.

Ferrell Drummond will represent

the state in the National Teacher

of the Year contest, co-sponsored

by the Council of Chief State School

Officers, Encyclopedia Britannica

and Ladies Home Journal.

I

Georgia Teacher of the Year for 1972, Ferrell Drummond. Additional story and pictures on page 8.

Education FinancingA National Question
Many quest ions have been raised in the minds of Georgians by the recent Califoroia Supreme Court ruling that the state's system of financing education from local school district property taxes is uncon st itutiona I.
The ruling, as I interpret it, is based on the fact that almost all the education financing in California comes from the local level and depends on the property tax. Therefore, wealthier districts can have better educational programs than poorer districts.
In Georgia, only about 20 percent of education's support comes from property tax at the local level. And even that portion is more equitably distributed under provisions of the MFPE Law in Georgia than in most states. The Required Local Effort factor built into the law means that systems vary in local support according to their taxable wea.fth.
So the point in question does not really apply here. But that does not mean our system of financing education in Georgia is perfect. We helped matters some last January when the Legislature passed House Bill 140 providing that Required Local Effort would be determined !?S a set percentage of the adjusted property tax digest. The Bill in effect froze the Required Local Effort for 1971 at the $78 million dollar figure. It also means that the topic will come up for debate again during the 1972 Legislative session. We will probably hear again from the group of citizens that thinks education should be financed 100 percent from state funds. Their reasoning, in part, is that the property taxpayer in Georgia is overburdened, and that state financing of education would provide the most effective form of relief. But the property tax in Georgia is low compared to the tax levied in other states. According to the NEA "Rankings of the States" research report for 1971, per capita property tax revenue of local governments in Georgia was $81.17. The United States average was $147.05 per capita, and the range, interestingly, is from a ' high of $238 .05 per capita in California to a low of $30. 11 in Alabama . Supporters of 100 percent state financing of education cite as their argument the fact that there seems to be a national trend toward increasing the amount of state financing for education. But it is the trend only in those states where local support is extremely high as in California, and state support is very low. Only three states-Hawaii, Delaware and North Carolina-provide a greater percentage of educational funds from state government than Georgia. So I would not like to see Georgia adopt an education financial plan that would provide 100 percent state support. Instead, we need to make additional efforts to increase the total amount of money available for education and to distribute the resources more equitably and effectively.
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Top French Educator Views Georgia Education

From kindergarten through university level classes . .. from school lunch at midday to Spanish class in the afternoon .. . The Minister of National Education of France got an overview of Georgia's public education system during a whirlwind tour hosted by the Georgia Department of Education.
M. Olivier Guichard, the Minister, and his party of six were accompanied by five Parisian journalists on the two and half day itinerary arranged by the Department under supervision of State School Superintendent Jack P. Nix.
In response to numerous inquiries as to why he had selected only Georgia for his United States visit of public education facilities, Guichard explained that he was interested in seeing the educational development of a middle-sized American state not too far from New York City.
Guichard is the executive officer of the entire French school system which includes 900,000 teachers from preschool through the university level.
His name has been mentioned as an emerging candidate for premier of France.

Recently he was headlined in international news as the one who has introduced educational reforms after student uprisings in 1968 during President Charles de Gaulle's administration.
When asked during the Georgia tour about the success of some of the reforms, he commented that only about 30 percent of the university students are exercising their newly awarded rights to elect student representatives to university positions.
Guichard said he was especially interested in Georgia's vocationaltechnical schools since this state is a national leader in the field, and because France has had a 'traditional separation of academic and vocationa I education."
"Your system is worth studying because of its decentralization, which we are in the process of doing in France.
"The French system has proven that ... if students hove a good liberal arts base the technical education can be imposed on it," Guichard commented.
Phillippe Moret, a counselor in the minister's cabinet who was in the

official party, said the group found interest in Georgia's team teaching, open space classrooms and flexible, individ ua Iized instruction.
He further expla-ined that France is a strong supporter of preschool training. He noted that 13 percent of the nation's two-year-olds are enrolled in preschool classes; 90 percent of the five-year-olds are enrolled. He emphasized France's preschool classes are not "babysitter sessions," but consist of a planned academic program.
In addition to Guichard's tour of elementary, secondary, comprehensive and technical public schools, he visited the John F. Kennedy Middle School and Community Center, the Georgia Department of Education Television Production Center and Fernbank Science Center.
He had an audience with Governor Jimmy Carter, a helicopter tour of metropolitan Atlanta, interviews with Noah longdale, president, Georgia State University, and George l. Simpson, Jr., chancellor, Georgia Board of Regents.
He was honored with a buffet at the home of Dr. Sanford S. Atwood, president of Emory University, and a reception by Alliance Francoise at the Governor's mansion.
Guichard and his official party were met at Hartsfield International Airport by Nix and his associates from the Georgia Department of Education; Jean Jacques Peyronnet, French Consul-General from New Orleans and his cultural attache, and Raymond Wanner, a U. S. Office of Education representative from Washington, D. C.

French Minister of Education, students at Jackson School, Atlanta.

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French Minister with Governor Carter, below; with students at Douglas County High School, above. 4/ Georgia Alert

Minister Guichard, Superintendent Jack P. Nix, right, Jackson teacher.
Translated ...
October 11, 1971
Superintendent Nix my dear friend:
Permit me first to thank you for your note which was as kind as your reception of me was.
I knew before coming to Georgia that my visit would be interesting. But it was more than that: an irreplaceable experience in the domains of politics and administration of the education program. I saw with you and with your colleagues as with all those with whom we visited in thei r establishments a moCiel dynamic attitude as regards the problems of instruction. I would like to tell you that it is an agreeable and encouraging spectacle.
You also were able to give to this visit a relaxed and warm atmosphere plus a very friendly tone. That doubled our pleasure.
I would be happy if you would transmit my gratitude to all those who aided you in this successful voyage which was far too brief but so full an experience.
Finally I would like to tell you what excellent memories I hold personally of our conversations and your company. I shall always be happy to welcome you to Paris if you would like to renew your visit.
Thanking you again most sincerely. I ask you to accept, Superintendent Nix my dear friend, the expression of my best sentiments.
0. Guichard The Minister of Education Paris, France

Three Georgia school systemsSchley, Marion and Webster counties-have agreed to cooperate in the construction and operation of the state's first tri-county high school.
The agreement is the culm ination of several years of planning and effort by representatives of the three systems and officials of the Georgia Department of Education. It is the first cooperative venture to educate students ever to be undertaken by county school systems, although there have been such agreements between independent city systems and the counties in wh ich they were located.
State Superintendent Jack P. Nix hailed the project as a "milestone in Georgia's continuing efforts to provide quality education for every citizen, no matter where he lives or what his station in life." In a letter to the three system superintendents, L. K. Moss of Marion County, Arthur T. Miller of Schley County, and R. H. McDuffie of Webster County, Superintendent Nix commended the superintendents and local boards of education "for outstanding, unselfish leadership ... that places the welfare of your people above personal gain. This joint effort on the part of three counties to improve educational opportunities will attract the attention of business and industrial leaders and, as a by-product of increased educational opportunities, greater economic development can be realized.
"The result of this effort will be an improved educational program for the counties' citizens that would never have been possible without the cooperation these superintendents and boards have shown," said Nix.
The new school will be a comprehensive high school operated by Marion County. It will offer a complete vocational and academic program to students in grades 8 through 12 in all three counties . The site selected for the school, to be purchased with $20,000 in depreciation and hazard reserve funds released by the State Board of Education at its October meeting, is 8 % miles from the existing Marion County High School, 11% miles from Webster County High School, and 12 miles from Schley County High School.
The Georgia Department of Educa-

Better education will be result of cooperative project by three Georgia school systems

Tri-county High School For Marion, Webster, Schley Marks Education Milestone

tion's transportation services unit has made a survey of the school bus routes in the three counties and determined that very little alteration in mileage and time will be necessary to transport the three systems' students to the new center. Most of the stlJdents a re already being transported to the county high schools in each system, according to Associate State School Superintendent Oscar Joiner.
"But this project,'' Joiner emphasized, "is not being undertaken to save money. It is a commendable effort by these th ree counties to upgrade the quality of education being provided their citizens."
All three of the counties, Joiner pointed out, are experiencing declining student .enrollments and could not expect an upturn in the next few years that would qualify them for school building grants under present State Board of Education policies.
Department of Education statistics confirm the declining enrollment trend . In 1964 Marion County had 1290 students in average daily attendance in grades 1 through 12; in 1971 the number was 1300, a gain of only 10 students; Webster County showed 769 students in 1964, 530 in 1971; Schley showed 834 in 1964, 661 in 1971. None of the counties in 1971 had sufficient average daily attendance in high school (grades 9-12) to qualify for school building funds under present

State Board policies. These require a minimum of 500 students in grades 9-12 to receive a capital outlay allotment for the construction of a new high school. Marion County had 408 ADA in grades 9-12 last year; Webster had 166; Schley had 183.
By contrast the new tri -county high school will have an enrollment of 1100 students and an average daily attendance of 1000, enabling the school to offer a comprehensive educational program and attract the best in talented teachers and resources. State School Superintendent Nix and other educational voices in the state, including the McClurkin report of 1965, "Organization of School Systems in Georgia,'' have consistently urged the state to work toward a minimum high school ADA of 1000 and a minimum district size of 10,000 students.
In addition to their declin ing en rollments, brought about by the establishment of private schools, the three counties are also experiencing economic decline . In 1969 the local tax digest per ADA child in the three counties was $8,827.25 in Webster, $5,804.90 in Schley and $4,664.41 in Marion. The state average was $10,003 .22.
The three counties are expected to apply for a consolidation building grant to the State Board of Education before the end of the year. Bonds will have to be sold and construction is projected to be comp leted sometime in 1973.
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Calling All Students ...

By Ed Buckner
Calling up to find out what the lesson is may soon mean more than asking a friend what the homework is for tomorrow.
A team of engineers and professors at Georgia Tech has developed an audiographic learning facility which not only uses a standard telephone to transmit both voices and graphics, but also allows the student to interact with his distant tutor.
The system developed at Tech makes it possible for a lesson to be transmitted as it is given or recorded on tape and sent to individuals or groups of students at whatever time is convenient. No photographs or film are involved in the system, but line graphics-anything a teacher could draw or write on a blackboard -are transmitted over telephone lines simultaneously with the teacher's voice. These graphics are then displayed on a viewer or a large screen as the teacher talks.
When an individual student uses the system, it can be programmed in such a way that he can go back and review all or part of the lesson, skip parts of it or scan a lesson quickly. On the other hand, the program can be set up so that part or all of the lesson is not subject to the student's control. The student can thus be given greater or less control over his own learning, according to what his teacher feels he needs.
One likely application for the audiographic system is with students who are confined to their homes. The equipment needed for the program is portable and easily installed, making the system potentially useful for students who will be out of school only for brief periods as well as for those needing more permanent home instruction.
Dr. Vladimir Slamecka, professor and director of the School of Information and Computer Science at Georgia Tech, has pointed out that the system is much less expensive than television or films and would allow a school system to use teachers with the greatest teaching ability more effectively and economically. Governor Jimmy Carter was so
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impressed with the idea that he has pledged $100,000 and help in getting more funds to test the program in several school systems.
Dr. Slamecka and Alton P. ("Pete") Jensen, senior research engineer for the School of Information and Computer Science at Georgia Tech, demonstrated the equipment used in the system at the October Bootstraps meeting of Georgia's school superintendents. Jack P. Nix, State Superintendent of Schools, asked for several volunteers from among the local superintendents to try the system.
Five have been selected. Two of the five are independent city systems, in Waycross and Bremen; two
Pete Jensen demonstrates equipment for audiographic learning to Georgia school superintendents at Bootstraps sessio.n.

are county systems, in Appling County and Walker County; and the fifth is Coosa Valley Area Vocational-Technical School in Floyd County.
Each of the five schools or systems involved in the trial program will contribute the time and talents of two of their best teachers. These ten teachers will then develop, in cooperation with the Georgia Tech team, ten courses-one from each teacher-to be presented via the audiographic facility. These courses will be developed and recorded in the first six months of 1972. In September the participating schools will be provided with copies of any or all of the ten courses, which will be used to supplement normal courses. This program will enable the Tech team to evaluate the program both as courses are developed and as they are used in the classroom.
The team from Georgia Tech is developing other applications for their project, including use in educating the blind with a modified graphic transmission, in industrial training and in adult education. The Tech team believes the principles they are applying may ultimately change our entire school system of education: they expect the emphasis in education will come to be on a process of self-instruction from a repository of knowledge. In the meantime some students may be getting some very important phone calls in the near future.

A high school English teacher for the gifted who holds himself accountable to !lis students, his community, his profession and himself is Georgia's 1972 Teacher of the Year.
Now a teacher at Carrollton High School, J. Ferrell Drummond actually began his teaching experience in the first grade. He started to school already knowing how to read and write, so his first grade teacher in rural Heard County often called upon him to help her teach the other form children in her room.
"From that time on I was a confirmed teacher," says Drummond. He worked his way through Jacksonville State Teachers College in Alabama and was graduated with honors, earning both a B.S. and M.S. in education.

First Grade Teaching Experience Started Top Teacher in Career
By Eleanor Gilmer
He has held teaching positions in DeKolb County, Calhoun County, Ala., Fort McClellan, Ala., and has been with the Carrollton City system since 1964.
All of his teaching experience has reflected a continued zeal to help his students.
"Not only has Mr. Drummond presented on opportunity for advanced study in English, but he has allowed us to pursue independent projects. His encouragement and guidance stimulate a desire to learn, a vital ingredient of education," said one of his students.
"Mr. Drummond has taught me to look at life like it is and to accept things like they ore. The most important thing is that he has shown a love and a special core for his pupils that you don't find in many other teachers," commented another student.
It is significant that for three years in suq:ession he was selected as the STAR teacher by students. He has been named Outstanding Young Educator by the Jaycees and nominated as the Carrollton Man of the Year. He was Carrollton Teacher of the Year in 1970.
His philosophy of teaching? "It is on qwesome task to analyze one's philosophy in the light of what one thinks and believes about his profession and what he actually does. Nevertheless, it is a very necessary task if one is to establish a sound perspective in teaching," Drummond said. "Sitting in every classroom is the most precious of our natural resources- human beings- the material that con bring order out of chaos, on oasis in the desert, hope where there has been desperation. "I see myself as being accountable in many ways . First of all, I om accountable to my students. Inspiration, love of learning, higher education, classical knowledge, proficiency- they ore all fine; I strive for these. But at all times I try to instill habits and insights that will (Continued on Page 11)

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"I see myself reaching out to integrate the school with the community, breaking
down the Chinese wall of isolation to make the whole community my classroom ... "

help my students to strengthen the American dream. "It is inevitable that I am accountable to my com-
munity. I don't see myself as one planting little pollyanne success stories about my school in the weekly newspaper, but I see myself reaching out to integrate the school with the community, breaking down the Chinese wall of isolation to make the whole community my classroom.
"I am also accountable to my profession ... I must work with my colleagues to strengthen our profession by weeding, pruning and replanting where necessary in our ranks.
"And finally, I am accountable to myself. I frnd that it would be very easy, in fact almost tempting, to .get so 'involved' that I would lose sight of my true perspective. I must leave time to dream, to create, to be human, to be a father to my own children.
"My challenge- the real challenge- lies in the fact that our society depends on these young people whose attitudes and values I am helping to shape. This is the most awesome task of all.
Georgia's Teacher of the Year will compete for the National Teacher of the Year award. If he is selected as the top teacher in the nation, he will receive his award at a White House ceremony.

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if they pass, they are given licenses. After the training, ma~y of these men are frequently offered higher paying jobs.
The big p roblem facing maintenance people today is vandalism. " No matter what we do, vandalism in our schools is increasing," said Cecil Cowart, Supervisor of Maintenance for Richmond County schools. " In Richmond County we spend from $3,000 to $5,000 each month on repairs caused by vandalism. The largest single item of cost is broken glass."
Methods of vandalism control are being tested each year in Georgia schools. The schools are installing more exterior lighting, fencing and detection systems inside the school to alert pol ice.
Are Better Now
"Our people are becoming concerned with finding ways to prevent air and water pollution," said Bailey. "They have virtually eliminated outside burning of trash. Sewage disposal systems must be kept in good condition and combustible boilers must work properly. When the water supply for a school system is separate from the rest of the town, then a chlorinator must be added to the water system. This adds to the maintenance problems."
Georgia schools are inspected on a regular basis by staff members of School Plant Services. There are 172 items on the inspection form to be checked . For instance, items checked concernil')g the outside of the school include lawns, shrubbery and general condition of the grounds. On the inside, floors, walls, light fixtures, bathrooms, the boiler room and other utilities are carefully inspected for cleanliness and safety. Following inspection, the school receives a grade. For a school to maintain its " standard" classification , it must pass inspection.
"We feel that school maintenance is an important part of the quality in the school system," says Mr. Bailey. "In the past ten years we have been able to attract younger men to fill maintenance positions and have gotten the salary for these people increased . Our main concern is to see that our children have comfortable, safe buildings that are conducive to learning."

Georgia Title Ill Projects Funded at $3.2 Million in '72

Title Ill programs in Georgia have been allotted $3,238,686 to fund 21 continuing projects during fiscal year 1972, according to Dr. Will G. Atwood, associate director for Title Ill, Georgia Department of Education .
Title Ill programs, funded under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, help develop unique solutions to persistent and critical educational problems through innovative and exemplary projects.
Project operations wi II receive $2,562,821, of which $384,123 has been designated for projects for the handicapped. An additional $451,910 was provided by the U. S. Commissioner of Education for three special projects being conducted in Clarke, Pierce and Telfair counties.
The Clarke County project is designed to improve the educational level of disadvantaged children in the county through a coordinated approach to pupil services. This is being accomplished through improving curriculum, increasing emphasis on reading and utilizing the instructional aides and career ladders now in use in Model Cities.
Shared services are a major factor in the Pierce County project which is aimed at preschool age, handicapped children. The project involves six participating systems and covers almost 3,000 square miles of service area. The project is bringing various disciplines and community services together to serve the multiply handicapped five-year-olds at a proposed psychoeducational center to be located in the geographic center of the rural area served.
Telfair County is developing an early childhood program for two, three and four-year-olds on a 12-month basis. Other aspects of the project include the provision of a year-round program to meet the social, physical, emotional and educational needs of children so that they may be better prepared for kindergarten and the first grade; providing educational activities for the two-year-old and his parent in the home setting with a home teacher; providing year-round day care services for three and four-yearold children of working parents; and

the establishment of four centers which will serve a dual purpose of providing nursery school activities and extending into a day care facility.
Continuing projects are being funded in Walker, Berrien, lowndes, Telfair, Bulloch, Clinch, Irwin, DeKalb, Houston, and White Counties and Waycross, Bremen, Marietta and Atlanta City School Systems. Two projects have been funded in both Chatham and Muscogee Counties.
State's Migrant Program Funded
Georgia has been awarded $376,047 by the U. S. Office of Education to conduct an education program for migrant children under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title I.
The funds will be allocated to 25 public school systems that enroll 2,350 children of workers who travel to various locations for employment harvesting Georgia agricultural products, according to Susie Underwood, elementary education consultant, Georgia Department of Education. It is she who is responsible for the 1971-72 education proposal on which the grant has been awarded.
Miss Underwood noted in her proposal that migrant students' transient living conditions cause many of them to read slowly and to have difficulty absorbing what they read; to miss the normal home environment; to lack cultural exposure; to develop an inferior self-image; to be unfamiliar with physical and nutritional health habits; and to be unfamiliar with other occupations than their parents'.
Systems which are scheduled to participate in the migrant program are.in Baker, Berrien, Coffee, Cook, Effingham, Emanuel, Grady, Hall, Habersham, Haralson, Irwin, Jenkins, lowndes, lumpkin, Mitchell, Pickens, Gilmer, Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth, Polk, Thomas and White counties. Similar programs will be available in two city school systemsThomasville and Valdosta .
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Innovative Products Display Set at GSU

An innovative Educational Products Display designed to help educators find solutions to problems faced in teaching today will be held at Georgia State University Dec. 8-11.
The exhibit, sponsored jointly by Region IV, USOE, and George State University, features ten new programs and products that have been developed through federally funded projects, Regional Educational Laboratories and Research and Development Centers. Each of the exhibit units employs color motion pictures or sound-slide presentations along with still photos of program materials.
The programs in the exhibits are

built around problem situations found in and out of classrooms and offer practice I solutions.
Part of the Office of Education's Information Dissemination Project and a function of the National Center for Educational Communication, the exhibit will provide local and state educators an opportunity to consider implementation of the innovative programs in their local schools.
The display may be seen in Assembly Rooms 1 and 2, Fourth Floor, Student Activities Building, Georgia State University from 10 a .m . to 10 p .m. on Dec. 9 and 10 a.m . to 4:30 p.m . on Dec. 10.

Brady to Head New Atlanta School for Deaf

Jack W. Brady has been appointed director of the Atlanta Area School for the Deaf by the State Board of Education .
Currently under construction in DeKalb County near Clarkston, the new school will be Georgia's second state institution maintained especially for the deaf. Until now, the School for the Deaf at Cave Spring, founded in 1846, has been Georgia's only public school for the deaf.
Previous to his appointment, Brady had been superintendent of

the Kentucky School for the Deaf for five years.
Since 1950 he has served as a coach, teacher, principal, counselor and supervisor in schools for the deaf in West Virginia, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and at Cave Spring.
A native of Waycross, Brady and his wife have two daughters. Mrs. Brady is a qualified teacher of the deaf. She, too, taught at Cave Spring formerly.
He is president-elect of the Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf.

Survey to Help State's Graduates Find Jobs

In an attempt to assist future Georgia public school graduates to find employment more easily, a Careers for Youth Survey is being conducted by the Georgia Department of Education and Georgia Institute of Technology this fall. The survey w ill determine which occupational fields need personnel, what are the required skill needs and job attitudes for the positions, and what are possible job advancements in each of the surveyed occupations over a period of time.
Dr. John L. Fulmer, professor, college of industrial management, Georgia Institute of Technology, reported on the project and its

implementation to the Georgia Board of Education at its October meeting.
Participating with Fulmer in the poll of representative Georgia firms across the state will be the Georgia Department of Education Vocational Education Division and the State Department of Labor Employment Security Agency.
The survey results will be made available to school administrators, teachers, school counselors and libraries.
The information on career ladders will be published in brochure form and will be available to high school students.

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ON BOARD
Three Counties to Cooperate, Build Comprehensive School

The Georgia Board of Education at its October meeting gave the goahead to three southwest Georgia counties who plan to build a tricounty comprehensive high school in Marion County. The Board authorized the release of $20,000 in depreciation and hazard reserve funds to purchase a site for the school.
According to State Superintendent of Schools Jack P. Nix the proposed high school is the first example of such cooperation among county school districts, although there have been previous joint programs between systems within a county. The three counties involved are Webster, Schley and Marion . The three school systems will not merge, but will cooperate in the operation of the high school, which will be located in the Marion County system . (See story on page 5.)
In other action the Board Sustained the action of the Clarke County Board of Education in dismissing a teacher accused of being under the influence of alcohol at work; Postponed until the November meeting a decision concerning the suspension of the teaching certificates of four Georgia teachers who failed to honor their contracts; Revised policies pertaining to the Critical Fields Program, the Reallocation of Surplus Title I, ESEA Funds and the General Education Development (GED); Appointed to the Professional library Committee Mrs. R. E. Tanner, Mrs. Evelyn Balkcom, Mrs. Ernestine Mason, Mrs. Wilma Craye, Mrs. Dorothy Blake, Mrs. Lee Drury, Miss Sara Hightower, Mrs. Mary Manley, Mrs. Daisy Howell, Mrs. Dorothea Goodloe, Mrs. Nancy Beasley and Mrs. Gwendolyn Williams; Authorized the Department of Education staff to submit a proposal

to the Office of Civil Defense for funding of the continuance of Civil Defense Adult Education;
Authorized the Department of Education staff to submit a proposal for $255,831 to be used for research and development programs in vocational education for fiscal year 1972;
Authorized the Department to negotiate a contract with LockheedGeorgia Company for the development of an individualized in-service education package for vocationaltechnical school instructors;
Designated the Cook County High School as an area vocational high school;
Approved an agreement between the Educational Television Network and the Board of Regents to continue the present agreement through December 31, 1971, for using Channel 8 for daytime programming and for cooperative programming in the evening;
Adopted a policy on surety bonding stating that "All persons employed by local school systems who are responsible for the management

Governor Tom McCall of Colorado addresses NASBE delegates at Atlanta session in October.
or direct handling of school funds shall be bonded. The local superintendent of schools shall be covered by an individual bond. The type of bond and the amount of coverage for other personnel shall be determined by the local bqards of education";
Adopted administrative rules on surety bonding stating that (A) the local superintendent of schools must record his bond with the Ordinary and the Ordinary must send a certified copy of the bond to the State Superintendent .of Schools and (B) Local boards of education must keep

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on file in the local superintendent's office the bonds of all persons who are responsible for tfie management or direct handling of school funds;
Approved FY 1972 budgets for Emanuel and Pickens counties;
Approved the budget for Harris County subject to re-working by the local board of education and a certificate from the tax commissioner that the tax digests and millage levies will produce the revenues indicated on the budget;
Disapproved the budget for Wilcox County and returned it to the local board of education for reworking;
Ruled that all Title I funds for Madison County be withheld until the local board budgets $5,064 to refund Title I audit exceptions agreed to in a conference of the Madison County superintendent, the Georgia Department of Education and U.S . HEW officials;
Authorized the Jefferson County School System to proceed with a program of self-evaluation in an effort to improve the effectiveness of the program of instruction in that system;
Asked the Department of Education staff to make a survey of school bu.ild ings in the state in an effort to a rrive at an estimated cost of updating these buildings;

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relative 'to the attendance of marri __, -.._......, Georgia School Code requiring the

students in the public schools and

State Board to "prescribe a course of

suggested policies relating to the

study in the background, history

attendance of pregnant students in

and development of the Federal

public schools;

and State governments"; that he

Approved a project using grant

advise them that the section shall be

funds for a short-term plan for the

literally applied and that courses

rehabilitation of public assistance

in anthropology and sociology and

clients.

the like are not acceptable substi-

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tutes and that the law requires in-

At its September meeting the State

struction for a full year in either

Board

the 11th or 12th grades; that as soon

Passed unanimously a resolution

as possible the State Department

stating that "This Board totally and

of Education develop a course of

unequivocally rejects the concept or

study meeting the requirements of

idea of transporting or busing

the law together with textbooks to

children away from their homes to

be used for the approval of the

attend school";

State Board of Education with full

Adopted a proposal to establish

implementation to take place at the

a joint committee composed of

beginning of the school year 1972-

Department of Education and Uni-

1973;

versity System officials to develop a

Authorized Department of Educa-

a method whereby area vocational

tion staff to apply for federal funds

technical school students may gain

to finance services for 28 multi-

course credit in junior colleges of

handicapped children at the Georgia

the University System;

Academy for the Blind during the

Endorsed a proposal to pa rticipate

the current school year;

in an experimental project (VIDAC)

Heard a report on the Statewide

developed by Westinghouse Corp.

Testing Program stating that testing

for the storage and transmission of

is proceeding in grad.es, four, eight

videotaped instruct ional programs;

and twelve.

Adopted a recommendation that "for the 1971-72 school year the

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State Superintendent of Schools spe-

Next Board meeting December 16.