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Friday, July 25, 2008
AYP is here!
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Georgia Department of Education released its annual report on whether schools made the “adequate yearly progress” testing goals required under No Child Left Behind.
I’m still looking through the data but here’s a story on the results.
Obviously parents and teachers care if their school made testing goals. Even if your school did, that doesn’t mean you’re immune from NCLB. Your school could receive students transferring from other schools that didn’t make the cut.
Are you shocked over how your school did? Do you think schools focus too much on making AYP?
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Should we recite the Pledge?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A Florida statute requires students to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they have written permission from their parents to abstain.
A high school student who was excused sued in 2005 after his teacher berated him in front of the class for refusing to stand during the pledge.
The lawsuit has made its way through the system and a three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta issued a ruling this week. (The case is Cameron Frazier v. Cynthia Alexandre.)
The court upheld that it is unconstitutional to require students who have been excused from saying the pledge to stand during the recitation. But the court didn’t say whether all students have the right to refuse to participate.
Should students be required to say the Pledge of Allegiance?
NOTE: AYP results are expected later today. We’ll post the results as soon as the Georgia Department of Education releases it.
