The schools develop partnerships with the community, parents, and postsecondary institutions and are expected to demonstrate sustained student academic performance. Schools participating in this initiative have committed to monitor their academic activities in order to better gauge their improvement in a number of areas. These include raising student achievement by focusing on specifics such as curriculum, teaching methods, after-school help, accountability, and effective relationships with middle schools and postsecondary institutions. Andreal Brown, who had 14 excused absences in one semester during her sophomore year at Central High School in Macon, challenged the policy. The local board had appealed a ruling by the state school board last November, which said that districts could not place additional conditions on students for them to receive passing grades.
State policy requires only that students justify their absences and make up their work.
National Center for Education Statistics. Teachers' Perspectives . Project Officer, Shelley Burns. The Public School Teacher Survey on Education Reform provides data from a nationally representative sample of 1,445 public elementary, middle, and high school teachers on their individual efforts toward education reform. This report contains information about education reform efforts in U.S. public schools as reported by schoolteachers through a mail survey.