School Board renews teacher contract, ignores tribunal recommendation
Tweet Staff Reports The Dougherty County Board of Education unanimously voted to renew the contract of Nikki Lyons, a first year teacher at Turner Elementary, despite the CRCT tribunal’s recommendation yesterday.
Read More →SCHOOL SYSTEM PROBLEMS
Tweet The latest Dougherty County School System controversy is another embarrassment to a system that has had more than its share in recent years. The system likely will have to repay the state more than $100,000 in misspent federal grant money. The most serious issue . . . a contract worth more than $90,000 to [...]
Read More →Cheating found on CRCT
Tweet Written by Jim Wilcox, general manager of WALB. Well the report is in and we all now know there was not only cheating on Dougherty County CRCT tests…there was wide-spread cheating. Long before the governor appointed special investigators to set up shop in town to get to the bottom of the test [...]
Read More →CRCT PROBE: Murfree’s new directive to teachers: Fully cooperate
Tweet By Kevin Hogencamp Dougherty County Schools Superintendent Joshua Murfree admonished his staffers Tuesday to cooperate with state investigators who return to Albany this month to determine whether educators altered students’ Criterion-Referenced Competency Test scores.
Read More →The scandal that wouldn’t die
Tweet The CRCT scandal might just go down in local history as the scandal that wouldn’t die. At first, we were told that it was over. Gov. Deal apparently had seen enough and decided to move on. Then we were told, “Not so fast,” it isn’t even close to being over. Last week, we learn [...]
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