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'Thomas Machek
Los Cumming, has been
accepted to attend the
University of Northwestern
Ohio in Lima, Ohio. He will
begin classes in August and
major in the university's High
Performance program.
Machek currently attends
South Forsyth High School.
Gail Richardson
...a ninth grade English
teacher at North Forsyth high
School, has been selected by
the Teacher Leaders Network
as a Washington Mutual
Leadership Fellow for the
2003-2004 school year.
Richardson is one of 12 teach
ers chosen from among the
organization's 200 person
BUDGET from6A
posed 2 percent salary
increase, and $700,000 for the
pay step added to the teacher
salary scale —for a total of
$9.3 million.
While Forsyth should
receive the $9.3 million
increase for fiscal year 2005,
the county school system will
receive only $3.9 million more
than last year 55.4 million
less than what the county
should be receiving under cur
rent state funding formulas. It
also would need to be made up
at the local level.
Though it is too early to
tell, Superintendent Paula
Gault said programs may be
eliminated due to state budget
cuts.
Dalton Public Schools
announced Tuesday that they
will cut the elementary foreign
language program for the
2004-2005 school year, sys
tem officials said. The state
does not fund kindergarten
through fifth grade instruction
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eastern U.S.
As a TLN WaMu Fellow,
Richardson will help create a
leadership training program
for network members and
develop policy papers that
bring the perspectives of suc
cessful classroom teachers to
critical education issues.
Richard is a 19-year teach
ing veteran and a National
Board Certified Teacher.
Georgia MR Waiver
Program meeting
... is an informational
meeting to attend on Feb. 5 at
6:30 p.m. at the Forsyth
County Board of Education
Building Room 380. The guest
speaker will be Dottie Adams,
in foreign languages. Due to
state budget cuts, the Dalton
school system can no longer
afford to fund the $500,000
program on its own. Nine
teaching positions will be
eliminated.
Gault said she hopes that
similar cuts will not be neces
sary for Forsyth County
Schools. She could not specu
late before the budget is
passed what programs would
or would not be cut.
Last year’s state budget
cuts reduced class time spent
on foreign language, music,
art and physical education in
Forsyth County’s elementary
schools. Jones said that 25
teachers are employed through
the locally funded elementary
foreign language program in
Forsyth. The program was
saved last year by a $350,000
grant from the state.
Elementary foreign lan
guage and increased technolo
gy were requested by the com-
EDUCATION
advocacy director and family
support coordinator for the
Governor's Council on
Developmental Disabilities, to
RSVP or for more informa
tion, contact Kathy Evans at
(770) 887-2461, ext. 2331.
Pulitzer Prize winner
Eugene Patterson
...is scheduled to speak at
North Georgia College &
State University on Feb. 12.
He will address "The
Changing South of Gene
Patterson." The event, at
12:30 p.m. in the Hoag
Auditorium, is part of Black
History Month activities and
is free and open to the public.
For more information call
(706) 864-1949.
munity in the 1995 Strategic
Plan constructed by Forsyth
County Schools. These com
munity goals cannot be met if
local funds are tied up in
meeting the basic needs of the
school system, Gault said.
With the new Georgia
Performance Standards being
rolled out by the state in the
fall, training will be needed
for teachers and administra
tors. Funding for this training
is undetermined by the state
department of education at
this point.
“The state seems to be
expecting more but giving
less,” Gault said.
“We’re not afraid of being
accountable and we love the
performance standards. But
we need the training to go
along with it,” she said.
The Forsyth County Board
of Education is scheduled to
meet on Feb. 12 for a work
session, during which the
budget will be discussed.
College notes
Shelley Coleman
...daughter of David and
Rhonda Coleman of
Cumming, graduated from
Georgia
Institute of
Technology
on Dec. 13
with a bach
elor of sci
ence degree
in manage
ment and
highest hon
ors. Coleman
received cer-
Coleman
tificates in
psychology, marketing and
information technology and
finished with a 3.95 grade
point average.
Coleman, 20, graduated at
the top of her class from
South Forsyth High School in
2001. She has taken a job
with Maxim Integrated
Products in Roswell and plans
eventually to pursue a mas
ter’s degree in business
administration and a law
degree.
Two students from
Cumming
...Christopher Blanchard
COX from 6A
to wait until high school to
teach them these important
historical issues,” Cox said.
Middle grades also will be
challenged by the new math
curriculum based on a
Japanese model. All students
will take Algebra I by the
eighth grade under the new
standards.
Forsyth County students
should be well prepared for a
challenging math curriculum,
Souter said. Forsyth imple
mented a non-traditional,
hands-on math curriculum in
FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS - W«drw»diy, February 4,2004 -1
Leßlanc and Lewis Morten
Smith graduated from
Jacksonville State University
on Dec. 13.
Scott C. Dodson
...a graduate of Forsyth
Central High School, received
a bachelor of science degree
in computer science from
Georgia Southern University
on Dec. 12. Dodson is the son
of Dane and Connie J.
Dodson.
Seth Campbell
... of Cumming, was
named to the dean's list at The
Savannah College of Art and
Design in Savannah.
Campbell is an animation
major and the son of Tim and
Meg Campbell.
Heather Sutton
...a graduate of South
Forsyth High School,
received an associate’s degree
in business management and
accounting from Gainesville
College on Dec. 12. Sutton,
20, will attend North Georgia
College and State University
to pursue a bachelor's degree.
She is the daughter of Sherry
2000-2001 for kindergarten
through ninth grades.
“Our math program sup
ports the state standards very
well,” Souter said.
Each section of the
Georgia Performance
Standards will be instituted
over two years. The rollout
begins with all grades’
English, high and middle
school science, and sixth
grade math in 2004-2005. The
rest of the curriculum will be
implemented in stages through
2008-2009.
Sutton.
Caroline Sprinkle
... of Duluth, was initiated
into the Alpha Omicron Pi
Sorority at Auburn University
on Oct. 19. Sprinkle is a
freshman at the university and
a 2003 graduate of South
Forsyth High School.
Lauren Tristani and
Brittany Sumner
...both 2003 graduates of
South Forsyth High School,
recently joined Zeta Tau
Alpha international fraternity
for women at the University
of Georgia in Athens. Zeta
Tau Alpha is a women's social
fraternity with approximately
231 collegiate chapters in the
United States and Canada.
The Gamma Pi Chapter of
Zeta Tau Alpha at the
University of Georgia recent
ly won the Nelly Galloway
Shearer Achievement Award
for being the top chapter
nationally to maintain its high
degree of excellence for the
preceding two years.
Sumner the daughter of
Steve and Gretchen Sumner,
and Tristani is the daughter of
Tony and Tina Tristani.
The first year will consist
of teacher training, which will
be extensive in middle grades
history and math. Teaching
and testing will be according
to the QCC. New standards
will be taught during the sec
ond year and the new curricu
lum test will be introduced.
Public comment may be
submitted at
www.glc.kl2.ga.us for 90
days starting Jan. 12. The new
curriculum with changes will
be adopted by the state board
of education in May.
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