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Thursday, August 31, 2006
Fayette Rejects Perdue’s Grad Coach Program
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Fayette County school district said “no thanks” to the state’s graduation coaches program, Bridget Gutierrez reports here.
The program places a person in every high school whose sole job is to help more kids make it to graduation. The state funds $40,000 of the graduation coach’s annual salary. The program was part of a push by Gov. Sonny Perdue, and every other school district is participating. But in Fayette, the funding came with too many strings, the superintendent said. Namely, the graduation coaches would not be allowed to teach. Now, if you’re a school with a low number of dropouts like, say MacIntosh High School (Where Superintendent Kathy Cox used to teach, incidentally), you might want to have your graduation coach teach a class or two. Ya know?
Do you think Fayette Superintendent John DeCotis made the right call? Do you like the state’s graduation coach program? Is it a job you would want?
