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That’s a large screen From left, Shirley Hall, Jossie Somerson, 9, and Cherie Somerson settle in to watch “The Princess Bride” on the inflatable big screen at Ashford Park Movie Night on June 29.
School board endorses ‘dual accreditation’ By Joe Earle
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As DeKalb County school officials work to fully restore the system’s accreditation, the school board has endorsed a plan to allow DeKalb high schools to seek accreditation individually from a state accrediting agency. The board voted 7-2 on July 1 to have the county’s high schools seek individual accreditations from the Georgia Accrediting Commission. The “dual accreditation” plan had been backed by parents who saw it as a way to get “back-up” accreditations should the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, a regional agency, revoke the system’s accreditation. SACS has placed
DeKalb’s accreditation on probation. “It’s a safety net,” Dunwoody City Councilman Terry Nall said. “It means if SACS accreditation is pulled for any reason, the school will still be accredited. … It means graduating students can say on college applications and applications for scholarships they graduated from an accredited high school.” But school board member Marshall Orson said DeKalb wouldn’t lose SACS accreditation, so the state accreditation wasn’t intended by the board as a backup. Instead, he said, the board thought it would be worthwhile to have a second agency look at school operations.
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