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| Title: Middle schools remain focal problem in Georgia's
education system
Writer: James Pilcher |
Date: August 15, 1999
Source: Athens Daily News |
| Lead: ATLANTA-- For 30 years, Georgia has seen itself as the capital of the new South, where economic growth and racial harmony would overcome the image of the region being poor and backward. | |
| Keywords: Economy, reform, money, political attention, educational ranking, Governor Roy Barnes, school system reform, desegregation, poverty, Atlanta, teen pregnancy, Savannah, white flight, Macon, segregation, Carl Glickman, faculty, school accountability, public education, educated work force, School Superintendent Linda Schrenko, Bob Kornegay, Quality Basic Education Act, QBE, funding formulas, teaching requirements, curricula, Department of Education, teacher salaries, Scholastic Achievement Test, SAT, reading test scores, HOPE scholarship. | |
