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Elam, McCullough Discuss
Education Bill’s Proposals
By D. J. LAAN
Staff Writer
Will performance by
Qeo!'gla's students be improved
significantly by 2005 due to pas
sage of a new education bill this
legislative session?
“Yes,” said Governor Roy
Barnes.
However, supporters of the
legislation said that children en
tering kindergarten in the fall of
2000 will be most affected by the
bill’'s requirements.
Some results could develop
in fiscal year 2000-2001 if the
House J)asses the bill, support
ers said, because of the bifl s fo
cus and pressure on local school
systems. The fiscal year runs
from July 1 to the next June 30.
Many educational analysts
said they g)elieve it will take more
than five years to attain its goals.
ACCOUNTABILITY
Dr. Tom McCullough, Chat
toocfa County superintendent,
said he is in favor of accountabil
ity at all levels of education.
“We all have to be account
able to someone and most of all,
we are accountable to our stu
dents as to what we do to make
their chances of success a real
ity,” he said.
Dr. Don Elam, Trion City
Schools superintendent, agreed
with Dr. McCullough about the
need for accountablglit_v.
Gov. Barnes’ education re
form bill has the following time
tables:
July, 2000 through June,
2001:
* Establish the Office of Ac
countability to begin setting
standards.
* First results from the new
curriculum tests, given this
spring will be available by the
fall. No state consequences will
result from any low scores.
* School districts will up
grade technology to link them
with new statewide student and
financial information systems.
* Additional teachers and
a smaller classroom size in kin
dergarten through third grade
classes with higher percentages
of low-performing students.
* New, nontraditional edu
cation programs established and
fundecf) forghi h schools students
who do not %"lt into traditional
classrooms.
* Every school will be re
quired to develop a school im
provement plan.
July, 2001 through June,
2003:
* Curriculum tests will be
expanded to one through eight;
social studies and science tests
will be added for grades three
through eight.
* End-of-course high
school tests in “core” academic
subjects will begin replacing sec
tions of the existing fiigh school
graduation test.
* More test score data will
be collected and all schools will
be graded or labeled according to
their performance.
* The state will begin to in
tervene at the low-performing
schools in the pilot program.
July, 2003 through June,
2005:
* Educators at high-per
forming schools will win finan
cial bonuses.
* Intervention by the state
in low-performing schools will
spread throughout Georgia.
* The state will make ad
justments and corrections to the
accountability system, based on
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the statistics collected.
* The high school gradua
tion test will be fully repfilced.
TESTING
Both Supt. Elam and Supt.
McCullough said their systems
are working on many of the as-
Eects outlined in the education
ill. Both the Chattooga and
Trion school systems volun
teered to participate as pilot
schools for the new curriculum
tests: Criteria Reference Compe
tency Test (CRCT) during the fi
nal two years. Although neither
the Chattooga nor the Trion sys
tems will likely receive com
ments on the CRCT results by
taking those tests, the state
woul(fi)e able to see which ques
tions are valuable and most per
tinent for the final edition ofipthc
test. It will then be used in all
Georgia schools.
UPGRADE
Dr. McCullough said the
county schools are in the process
of uggrading hardware systems
so that when the state Depart
ment of Education (DOE) issues
appropriate software for tracking
students’ scores and obtaining
Oil Mill Road Fire
Probed By Police
Summerville Police Depart
ment detectives are investigating
a fire that occurred last week at
18 oOil Mill Road Summerville,
according to reports.
Officer Cg’ris Harris was
gathering information on an
other case while parked at the
corner of U.S. 27 and Washing
ton Street last Thursday, Feb. 17,
he said. Two people told him a
building on Oil Mill Road was
afire, he added.
The officer called firemen to
the scene, he said, and they had
to force their way into the build
ing.
Det. Terry Williamson was
called to the scene.
INCIDENTS
In other incidents, officers
reported:
* Donita Ware, 94 North
Wilson St., Summerville, said
Sundgy that a domestic fight oc
curred at 166 7th St., Summer
ville.
* The Papa John’s Pizza
manager said a worker left Fri
day night to deliver a pizza and
never returned. The store was
missing $128.61, a pizza delivery
pouch and a light ?or the top of
the vehicle.
* Melinda Battles, 183 Mar
tin St., Summerville, said some
one tried to break into her home
Friday. Pry marks were discov
ered around the front door.
* A Pizza Hut employee and
T
DR. ELAM
other academic information, the
Chattooga schools will be ready.
Dr. Elam said the Trion City
School System is also preparing
for the new software.
“I don’t think the state has
developed the software at this
time, from what I understand,”
Dr. Elam said. “In our school sys
tem it is updated as the state up
dates.” He said he didn’t expect
to see the new statewide stué)eent
and financial evaluation software
in Georgia schools by July, 2001.
MORE TEACHERS
Dr. Elam said Trion antici
pates adding three new teachers
in the third grade next year. That
is mentioned in the first year’s
timetable.
Dr. McCullough said addi
tional teachers might be added
at Menlo Elementary School and
possibly one at Lyerly Elemen
tary School.
“The pupil-teacher ratio in
our system is already compliant
and we are fortunate that it's on
target,” he said.
ALTERNATIVES
Dr. McCullough said more
explanations are needed for
management were involved in a
quarrel Friday. One of the em
ployees was late and the manager
told the employee that tardiness
would not be tolerated.
* Regina Bice, 64 Bankston
St., said Friday that her son had
threatened to kill her. She
wanted police protection.
* Wal-Mart management
said an unidentified female left
the store without paying for sev
eral items.
* Tisha Wagner, 43
Bankston St., Summerville, said
someone assuming the business
name of FNG tried to get her
credit card information and in
return, send her another card.
MONEY TAKEN
* Diann Hall, 306 Apart
ment 2, College St., Calhoun, said
while she was at the Chattooga
County Department of Family
and Children Services on Feb. 16,
someone stole $225 from her
purse.
* Odell Mosteller, 157 Y St.,
said someone broke into his
house and stole a compact disc
player and five 20-amp fuses.
The stolen items were valued at
$369.
* David Pullen, 183 Peach
Blossom Lane, Summerville, said
he lost his cellular phone.
* Amy Marguerita Johnson,
703 Summerville Gardens
Apartments, said someone broke
the parking light lens on her car
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school administrators so they
can determine how the educa
tion bill will alter the local alter
native education pro§ram.
“Students in ‘alternative
schools’ in the past have been
there for punitive reasons,”
McCullougfi said, “and now it
appears the governor might be
wanting to move students into
the disclplinary-t§pe schools for
other types of academic help and
non-disciplinary stuctlfi'."
“It seems to me that the bill
is referring to situations when a
student could be slow in reading
in a class and if there were a
teacher at the alternative school
who could help that student,
then he or she would be shifted
to that school,” Dr. Elam ex
plained.
IMPROVEMENT
Both the Chattoo_lga County
School System and Trion City
School System are required to
produce school improvement
plans as part of their normal
Southern Association of Colleges
and Schools (SACS) accredita
tion prct)firam.
“I think both of our school
systems are already com?liant
with what Gov. Barnes like {has
in mind regarding]a school im
glrovement plan,” Dr.
cCullough said.
He said some schools in the
state are not part of the SACS
accreditation program and he
said he believes Gov. Barnes is
hoping to get those schools “on
line” to meet certain standards.
“I’m pretty sure that all
schools in the state are already
required to have school improve
ment plans on file,” Dr. Elam
said.
The state DOE said all Geor
gia schools are retfluired to have
an improvement plan from year
to year.
“I suppose we will have to
see what Gov. Barnes is purpos
ing on this,” Dr. Elam said.
‘ on Sunday.
| * Dan Floyd, 941 Old Sum
" merville Road, Rome, said some
one damagtc)ed his black 1986
- Ford F-150 by scrapins the pas
senger side’s fenders, doors and
hood.
| X Am&' Johnson, 159 Sum
- merville Gardens Apartments,
said someone stole her Visa
| credit card Sunday.
* Owners from Summerville
- Auto Sales said a camouflage
colored 1983 Nissan station
~ wagon was taken from the firm.
‘ * Joe A. Hunt, 35 Colelio
| Circle, Summerville, said some
one broke into his house and
stole a Russian-made 12-gauge
| shotgun, valued at $l5O.
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| Many veterans may believe
that the new Mont§ome?' GI
Bill provides only for college
training. “Not so,” says Georgia
Commissioner of Veterans Af
fairs Pete Wheeler. “Veterans
may train in an entry-level job
in almost any field and receive
their GI Bill Educational Ben
efits during the training peri
ods.”
Under on-the-job training
programs, veterans receive
skilled training in a wide variety
of occupations.
| Volunteer Charged In Theft |
Chattooga Coung' Sheriff’s
Office investigators discovered
that a Gore Fire Department vol
unteer took a government license
plate, according to sheriff’s re
ports.
Investigator Mark A.
Schrader said on Feb. 12 that
volunteer fireman Thomas
Lefeat Renfroe took a govern
mental license plate from the
Gore Fire Department without
permission and placed it on his
personal vehicle.
Renfroe was charged with
theft by takiné governmental
property, sheriff’s reports stated.
INCIDENTS
In other incidents, sheriff’s
deputies re‘?orted:
* Frank Reece, 7254 Ga. 114,
Lyerly, said on Friday that some
one took his Yamaha 250 Tim
ber Wolf four-wheel, all-terrain
vehicle from his residence. It was
valued at $4,000.
* Ken Walters, 55 North
Chattooga Avenue, Lyerly, said
someone on Friday broke a pad
lock off his outbuil’din§ and stole
four dirtbike motorcycles, all val
ued at $5,000.
* Ronald Chislom, Shortcut
Road, LaFayette, said he hit
three deer with his 1995 Chevy
Ss-10 on Friday. The driver’s mir
ror and front grill were damaged.
* Dewayne Fowler, 72
Taliaferro Springs Road, Lyerly,
said someone broke into his ve
hicle and took two speakers val
ued at S3OO. The incident hap
pened on Saturday.
CHS SCRAPING
* Pam Middleton, 4587 Hair
Lake Road, Summerville, said
someone scraped her 1987 giray
Toyota Camry with a key while it
was sitting in the Chattooga High
Schoo_}_garking lot.
*The owner of Jim’s Auto
Su plfi' said Frida{ that someone
hag shot paintballs at her busi
ness and S\rown a beer bottle at
her front door. No damage was
reported.
* Ann Wood, 39 Rose Circle,
Trion, said someone possibly
broke into an abandoned house
near her home.
* Tina Goodwin, 75 Fields
Walk, Summerville, said some
one broke a rear window at her
residence Saturday.
BREAK-IN
* Anthony Slayton, 38
Taliaferro Sprin%s Road, Lyerly,
said someone broke into his
truck. The contents in the glove
box were dumped and a citizens
band radio was partially re
moved. Nothing was discovered
missing.
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* Grey Day, 6910 Ga. 114,
Summerville, said someone
broke into his 1994 Dodge and
stole a Chicago Bulls starter
jacket and a San Diego Chargers
starter jacket on Saturday.
* On Monday, Tonya
Ellenburg, 1010 South Chatta
nooga St., laFa{ene, said sheran
over a piece of the tread of a trac
tor-trailer truck tire. Her car was
disabled after the impact with the
large piece of rubber.
ARRESTED
Also arrested during the past
week were:
* Jessie Adams, 36, of 166
7th St., Summerville, who was
charged with battery.
* Tracey Barksdale, 28, (no
address given by sheriff’s office),
who was charged with deposit
account fraud.
* Mark Crowe, 35, of 540
James St., Summerville, who was
charged with aggravated assault
and second degree criminal dam
ageto ¥roperty.
* Tammy Culpepper, 32, of
285 Knollwood Subdivision,
Summerville, who was charged
with simple batter{.
* Melissa Gilliland, 25, of
17617 U.S. 27 north of Trion, who
was charged with criminal tres
passing.
* David Hunter, 53, of 993
Martin St., Summerville, who
was charged with simple battery.
* Patricia Meyer, 45, of 12
Pine Hill Apartments, Summer
ville, who was charged with pos
sessing cocaine.
DRUG CHARGES
* Stanley Nichols, 29, of
8695 County Road 103,
Mentone, who was charged with
possession of less than an ounce
of marijuana, possession of a fire
arm during the commission of a
crime, possession of marijuana
with intent to distribute, posses
sion of methamphetamines, pos
session of a Schedule 4 drug and
trafficking methamphetamines.
* Roy Padgett, 42, of 3215
Halls Valleg Road, Trion, who
was charged with discharging a
firearm near a road, hunting on
another’s land without permis
sion and misuse of firearm while
hunting.
* Melvin Sams, 37, of 111
Summerville Gardens Apart
ments, Summerville, who was
charged with criminal trespass
ing.
. ACCOUNT FRAUD
* Tracey Smith, 29, of 266
Penn St., Trion, who was charged
with deposit account fraud.
* Laura Stewart, 39, of 499
Highland Ave., Summerville,
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who was charged with deposit
account fraud.
* Sylvia Sweet, 56, of 57 Giv
ens Road, Trion, who was
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* Sherman Watkins, 54,
Rte. 2 Box 562-B, Summerville,
who was charged with deposit
account fraud.
* Emma Watts, 64, of 133
Ralph Chamlee Drive, Menlo,
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Trion City School
2000-2001 Calendar
The calendar for the Trion City School 2000-2001 school
year for the Pre-kindergart.en through grade 12 is as follows:
In-Service Days Pre-Planning
Ist Day of School
Labor Day Holiday
Fall Breafi’
Thanksgiving Holidays
Christmas Holidays Students
Christmas Holidays Teachers
In-Service Da
Student Holicf;y
In-Service Day
School Holiday
In-Service Day
Spring Break
Last Day of School
High School Graduation
In-Service Days Post-Planning
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* Amy Wilson, 18, of 46
Maplewood Drive, Summerville,
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* Michael Wilson, 35; of 46
Maplewood Drive, Summerville,
who was charged with obstruc
tion of an officer.
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July 21
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Nov. 20 - 24
Dec. 18 - Jan. 2
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