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WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 2009
THE JACKSON HERALD
PAGE 3A
Tight budget bringing changes
to Jefferson summer school
Memorial Day tribute
REMEMBERING THOSE WHO SERVED
Smith Pounds paid tribute to Maysville veterans — those who died in America’s
wars and those who came home — at Maysville’s Memorial Day observation
Monday in City Park. The highlight of the event was the dedication of a wreath in
memory of the veterans. Photo by Mark Beardsley
Planning commission to meet Thursday
County makes
little change
BY KERRI TESTEMENT
A TIGHT financial year
is resulting in some changes
in how area schools handle
summer school.
While the Jackson County
School System is planning
few changes in its summer
school program, the Jefferson
City School System hopes
its trimmed-down summer
school will save the district
$35,000.
It’s the first time that
the Jefferson City School
System has scaled back its
usual summer school pro
gram, according to superin
tendent John Jackson.
“I think everybody under
stands that right now, the
budget — being the state that
it's in throughout the entire
state — there’s just some
things that you’ve got to cut
back on,” Jackson said.
For the city school sys
tem, that means no summer
school will be available for
middle school students who
didn’t pass a course.
Jefferson Middle School
officials had warned students
and parents about the change
for several months before
the end of school on Friday,
Jackson said.
Instead, the middle school
intensified its approach in
the classroom, which includ
ed pointing out to students
who didn’t complete their
homework assignments that
summer school wouldn’t be
an option, he added.
“I think they’ve been able
to get that point across to
a lot of the kids that were
on the borderline of pass
ing or failing,” Jackson said.
“I think a good number of
them recognized the grav
ity of the situation and they
went ahead and did what
they had to do.”
In Georgia, students in
third, fifth and eighth grades
must pass the Criterion-
Referenced Competency
Tests (CRCT) to be pro
moted to the next grade.
Traditionally, a CRCT retest
is given during the summer
to allow students a second
chance to pass the tests.
At JMS, CRCT retests
were given before the end
of the school year, Jackson
said. Jefferson Academy is
offering retests during teach
er post-planning days.
At Jefferson High School,
the school is offering retests
of the Georgia High School
Graduation Tests (GHSGT)
in July and a credit recovery
program for students who
didn’t complete core classes
from June 3-30.
JHS has been offering
credit recovery courses
every summer, but most of
the program is now avail
able online. That move has
allowed the school system
to use fewer teachers dur
ing summer school to teach
students.
“Now with a lot of this
being online, you can have
a certified teacher in there
running multiple classes,”
Jackson said.
The Jackson County
School System also offers
credit recovery for those
high school students who
earned a 60-69 grade in a
course.
The district uses the online
program Georgia Virtual
School, and offers credit
recovery throughout the
school year and during sum
mer school.
April Howard — assistant
superintendent for teaching
and learning for the Jackson
County School System —
said the district doesn’t
offer a “traditional” summer
school program.
Instead, the district is
focusing on a ninth grade
academy for those students
who didn’t earn their course
credits and credit recovery at
the high school.
“We’re not offering full
courses during the summer
time, but we have not done
that for several years now,”
Howard said. “We feel like
if they missed that much, we
don’t feel like they get the
standards that they need to
be able to go on.”
The ninth grade academy
will be similar to previous
years and will include about
four to five teachers, Howard
said.
East Jackson Com
prehensive High School will
offer an “express” program
for those students who didn’t
pass the science and math
portions of the GHSGT,
according to superintendent
Shannon Adams. That two-
week program will be open
to students in other school
systems.
Elementary and middle
schools in the district will
continue to offer a CRCT
review for those who didn’t
pass portions of the test,
Adams said.
THE JACKSON County
Planning Commission will meet
at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 28, at
the administrative building in
Jefferson.
Items on the agenda include:
•James Ray Mattox to rezone
6.215 acres at 890 Savage Road
from Agricultural Rural Farm
District (A-2) to Low Density
Single Family Residential (R-l)
for a four lot split.
•Robert Schaffeld, representing
Southern Company, requests a
change of conditions of setbacks,
buffers and landscaping require
ments on approximately 280.85
acres located at 585 Jarrett Road.
Everson continued from page JA
Everson previously served as principal of
WJMS for five years before being named
the district’s director of administrative ser
vices.
When Everson left WJMS, April Howard
became principal of the school. She also
later left the school to become the assistant
superintendent for teaching and learning for
the Jackson County School System.
Howard resigned from that position in
May to become the director of middle/
secondary instruction for the Jefferson City
School System, starting July 1.
WJMS’s existing principal — Rise Hawley
— will replace Howard as the assistant
superintendent of teaching and learning for
the Jackson County School System, effec
tive July 1, Adams said.
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Jackson County
Board of Commissioners
PUBLIC HEARING
The Jackson County Board of Commissioners
will hold a public hearing at 6:00 p.m. on
Monday, June 15, 2009, at the Jackson County
Courthouse at 5000 Jackson Parkway, Jefferson,
Georgia, to consider the following matter:
1. Bell Estates subdivision, represented
by David C. Lord, is requesting the
creation of a Special Tax District for
Street Lighting to provide a
mechanism for the property owners of
the subdivision to pay for the existing
street lights within the subdivision.
(Tax Map 118 Parcels 022-1 thru 022-
16)
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procedures are available for review in the
Planning Division Office, of the Department of
Public Development during regular office
hours.
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