What do you mean? APS mostly gets issues with disparity of performance (aka, the children of the rich people far outperform the children of everyone else).
RE Grady (and others):
"Focus schools are either for graduation rates lower than 60% or achievement gaps in achievement or graduation rate between the highest performing subgroup and the lowest performing subgroup. They are on it because of the gap on graduation rate between their highest subgroup and their lowest subgroup."
Basically, lots of child performance in school is based on who your parents are, not what your school does.
I was mainly talking about things like the recent widespread systemic cheating.
44 out of 56 schools were cheating on the CRCT.
Edit: by things like that, I mean an environment where that large a percentage of schools feel pressured to cheat.
I'm aware that state and federal rules and standardized tests are responsible for some of the pressure, but none of the other school systems in the metro-atlanta area had such wide spread cheating even though they were under the same state and federal pressures. I'm going to say there is something wrong with the way the school district is ran if 44/56 schools are cheating.
You're saying "Atlanta" and meaning the "Metro Atlanta Area". He's saying "Atlanta" and meaning 'The City Limits of Atlanta where you can live in an walkable urban setting and not worry about driving everywhere'.
What do you mean? APS mostly gets issues with disparity of performance (aka, the children of the rich people far outperform the children of everyone else).
Sure, there are bad ones. But don't live there:
http://www.atlantapublicschools.us/site/default.aspx?PageTyp...
This explains why you may think the schools are bad: http://midtown.patch.com/articles/grady-high-school-one-step...
RE Grady (and others): "Focus schools are either for graduation rates lower than 60% or achievement gaps in achievement or graduation rate between the highest performing subgroup and the lowest performing subgroup. They are on it because of the gap on graduation rate between their highest subgroup and their lowest subgroup."
Basically, lots of child performance in school is based on who your parents are, not what your school does.