Clayton County Public Schools has received its long-awaited accreditation, but it comes with strings attached.
The southside school district is now “accredited on advisement,” a status that will follow the district for the next two years chiefly because AdvancEd, the agency that grants accreditation, wants to make sure the school board continues working on its professionalism and governance issues.
The decision means the agency will continue to track how well the school board conducts itself. Infighting among school board members had been one of the problems that had tripped up the school district in the past and ultimately helped strip it of accreditation in 2008.
“The results of this process are not arbitrary or punitive but provide a more precise assessment of an institution’s status in an ongoing process of continuous progress,” Barbara Remondini, vice president of public school systems for AdvancEd, wrote in a letter to the school district dated Sept. 4. “The indicator performance levels (will) provide your institution with a road map.”
The added stipulation placed on the district by AdvancEd, the parent of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, which monitors school districts, is an extra requirement beyond the standard accreditation recommended by the review team that visited the school district in April.
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