Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Smyrna's Campbell High ranks in Newsweek's 2013 best 2,000 high schools.
Newsweek has ranked Campbell High School as the No. 1917 high school in the country. For its rankings, Newsweek sent out a survey to more than 5,000 high schools in the U.S., with about 2,500 schools responding in 2013. You can see the details about Campbell's ranking, and every other ranked high school by clicking on the markers in the interactive map above. Newsweek’s ranking highlights high schools across the nation that have proven to be the most effective in turning out college-ready grads. The survey scores were weighted and calculated using several criteria, including a new component this year to consider the percentage of students enrolled in AP, IB or Advance International Certificate courses. Here's a list of the criteria the …
Monday, May 6, 2013
Smyrna Mayor Max Bacon will be recognizing educators, volunteers and students from 13 Smyrna area schools Monday evening.
A group of teachers, students and volunteers from 13 Smyrna area schools will be honored tonight with Mayor's Education Awards. City of Smyrna Mayor Max Bacon and council members will hold an Education Awards Ceremony at 6:30 p.m. today at the City Hall, followed by the regular City Council meeting at 7:30 p.m. Outstanding students, staff members and volunteers from 12 Smyrna area schools in the Cobb County School District in addition to a public charter school, the International Academy of Smyrna, will be recognized for their academic achievement, dedication and volunteer service. Bacon created the Mayor's Education Award program in late 2005 to acknowledge the academic achievement, outstanding service and contributions of Smyrna …
A runner’ gesture cost his high school a trip to the state championships. Tell us if you think the ruling on the gesture was right on, or if the disqualification was unwarranted.
A high school’s chance to compete in the state championships was halted last month despite a winning performance from four of its athletes. Columbus High School saw four of its athletes take first in the 4 x 100-meter relay. But the team was disqualified, according to KHOU 11 News, after its final runner, Derrick Hayes, pointed up to the sky as he crossed the finish line. The DQ was levied as the gesture violated a rule that prohibits excessive acts of celebration, and it cost the school an opportunity to make it to the state championships. Hayes’ father said he believes his son made the gesture to give thanks to God. “It was a reaction,” K.C. Hayes said. “I mean you’re brought up your whole life that God gives you good things, you’re …
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Rev. R.V. Brown, president of Outreach to America’s Youth, will speak at Whitefield's commencement.
Whitefield Academy will hold a series of graduation exercises on May 17 and 18 to honor its 16th class of students. A Baccalaureate will be held on Friday, May 17, from 7 p.m. on the Whitefield campus located on Whitfield Drive SE, Smyrna. The event will feature speaker Rev. Canon Steven J. Saul who currently services as the Cannon of the Diocese of the Westerm Gulf Coast of the Anglican Church. The graduation ceremony will be held on Saturday, May 18 from 10 a.m. at Mount Paran Church of God. Rev. R.V. Brown, president of Outreach to America’s Youth, will give the keynote address. “I am humbled and honored to stand amongst this class of 2013, shake their hands, and welcome them as we shift our relationship from that of headmaster/student …
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Additional changes have been proposed to the $894 million budget approved by a 4-3 vote Monday.
The Cobb County Board of Education has tentatively approved an $894 million fiscal year 2014 budget that includes additional revisions and is likely to be altered further before final passage next month. By a 4-3 vote, the school board on Monday adopted a budget plan that retains five furlough days for all Cobb County School District employees, including teachers, but further reduces the number of proposed teacher cuts through attrition. The tentative budget also calls for taking more out of reserve funds than originally recommended and makes a more generous assumption about the upcoming Cobb tax digest than the county tax assessor. Voting in favor of the tentative budget were board chairman Randy Scamihorn of North Cobb, vice chairman …
Monday, April 29, 2013
The board of education is scheduled to take an initial vote at Monday's called work session.
After two grueling work sessions, the Cobb County Board of Education has scheduled another one for Monday as it faces a deadline for tentative approval of the fiscal year 2014 budget. A special meeting has been called for 1 p.m. Monday as the school board continues to work to close a projected deficit of $86.4 million. Monday's work session will take place in the board room of the Cobb County School District headquarters at 514 Glover Street, Marietta. The meeting also will be live-streamed on the CCSD website. The board is expected to vote for tentative approval, which it is required by law to do in order to advertise a public hearing on the budget. That public hearing has been scheduled for Tuesday, May 14, at 7 p.m., and final budget …
Sunday, April 28, 2013
The Cobb Board of Education voted Thursday to spend $1 million to install the devices in high schools.
The Cobb Board of Education voted Thursday night to restore $1 million in current Cobb Education SPLOST III funds to complete the installation of surveillance cameras in high schools. The vote, which passed unanimously (7-0), came after the Cobb Facilities and Technology Committee, which conducts SPLOST oversight, urged the board to spend the contingency funding to improve security. Camera installation at the 16 high schools in the Cobb County School District was delayed when the funding was cut as part of across-the-board reductions in the SPLOST III program. The $1 million represents around 20 percent of SPLOST III money designated for surveillance cameras. The cuts did not affect installations at elementary and middle schools. When the …
Friday, April 26, 2013
Opposition to Common Core curriculum standards resulted in 4-3 votes against new texts starting with the 2013-14 academic year.
The battle against Common Core curriculum standards came to Cobb County Thursday night. Opponents of the federally-embraced guidelines filled the Cobb Board of Education board room to strongly protest spending $7.5 million for new mathematics textbooks in the Cobb County School District. And after some heated debate, and by 4-3 votes in two separate votes, the board made those opponents happy in rejecting the measures. They were at their most vocal right before the votes, when board member Kathleen Angelucci pleaded for more time due to a "groundswell" of concern about the new standards in numerous states, including Georgia. "When Common Core was adopted, nobody knew what was in it," she said. "It's like Obamacare. You vote for it, then …
Thursday, April 25, 2013
One metro Atlanta school is near the top of the 2013 list.
U.S. News & World Report released its list of top public high schools this week, and Campbell High School in Smyrna earned a national ranking. Of the 2,290 nationally-ranked schools, Campbell came in at No. 1,639, which was enough for the magazine's silver medalist designation for top-performing schools. One metro Atlanta school was near the top of the list. Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology in Lawrenceville was the third best high school in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report. That was the highest national ranking of any school in the state of Georgia. The magazine examined how well students at more than 21,000 schools performed on state assessments, comparing them with other schools in the same state …
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Ten other Cobb schools also made the list.
Campbell High School is one of 11 Cobb County schools included in The Washington Post's list of America’s Most Challenging High Schools. Campbell is the 44th most challenging high school in Georgia, according to The Post. Walton High School had the highest ranking of any Cobb County school, coming in at No. 3 on the state list and No. 163 on the national list. The Post's ranking system calculates the number of advanced placement, international baccalaureate and advanced international certificate of education tests given at a school each year, and divides it by the number of seniors who graduated that year. A ratio of 1.000 means the school had as many tests as graduates. Other Cobb high schools that made the list include:
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8:13 am on Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Campbell is far from being last. Sylvia, you may need to recheck your facts. Oakdale, Osborne and Pebblebrook, are on the bottom. schooldigger.com is no more reliable than a politically motivated survey/magazine. more ›