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Laser Focused on Academic Achievement
The Floyd County School system is laser-focused on academic achievement. Superintendent Dr. Glenn White said the pain the system has experienced with the need to close four elementary schools has been vindicated, at least in part, but the system continues to experience success in the classroom.
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shift to remote learning, which White said is not nearly as effective as face-to-face in-person classroom instruction. Superintendent White said the data from Milestones, end of course and end of grade tests are all improving steadily.
The graduation rate has been climbing in recent years, and the Class of ’21 rate was 94.1%, but White and the Floyd County Board of Education won’t be satisfied until it reaches 100%.
If there is a silver lining to the pandemic, it is the massive amount of money, nearly $30 million, that the federal government has pumped into the schools through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES) and the American Rescue Plan Act.
“Our objective is not to be good, but to be great,” White said. He believes the future is looking brighter every day. The superintendent points to that 94.1% rate that comes in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic that forced the system to
“We’ve invested in instructional coaches to ensure that our students are caught up,” White said. The instructional coaches will be in all of the schools. Some of the schools in lower-income areas have had additional instructional coaches adigeorgia.com
