Cobb County Schools will not be investigated by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the agency that accredits the district, Superintendent Fred Sanderson announced Thursday.
AdvancED, the association's parent company, was looking into governance concerns with the Cobb Board of Education. Complaints centered around the board's vote to ditch the balanced calendar, and the exclusion of board members in the decision-making process.
After communication between the agency and the district, AdvancEd decided Cobb would maintain its "accreditation on advisement" status until the district's mid-term report is submitted later this year. The agency said it would monitor the board, and directed members to get more training, make sure to following state's open meeting laws and to use data and evidence in decision making.
The letter from AdvancEd is posted at www.cobbk12.org.
AdvancED is hosting a media press conference Friday to update its involvement with Cobb, Atlanta and Clayton schools.
Jaime Sarrio
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Georgia is one of just 13 states that measure the benefits of their transportation spending, according to the Pew Center on the States and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Under Gov. Sonny Perdue the state hired the consulting group McKinsey to draft a plan showing Georgia's transportation needs, like commuting, freight delivery and economic development, and how they were served by its spending. That research also showed that metro Atlanta could lose 230,000 potential jobs over the next 30 years if it did not invest more in transportation projects and better planning. ARIEL HART
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The State Board of Regents selected Bonita Jacobs, an administrator at the University of North Texas, to be the next president of North Georgia College & State University. She begins July 1.
Jacobs is the executive director of the National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students at the Texas college.
She replaces David Potter, who is retiring. LAURA DIAMOND
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