Georgia: Atlanta schools are placed on probation

01-19-2011

By Robbie Brown/New York Times

Atlanta’s public school system was warned on Tuesday that it could lose accreditation this year if feuding school board members do not resolve their differences. An independent accreditation group, AdvancED, announced that it was placing the 49,000-student school system on probation, giving the board nine months to make improvements or face further punishments. Losing accreditation affects students’ ability to apply to college or receive scholarships. The announcement followed months of public power struggles between two groups of board members for control of the board. Atlanta is the largest school system that the accreditation group has ever placed on probation, according to its spokeswoman, Jennifer H. Oliver. (more…)

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