Muscogee County schools plummet in preliminary AYP report
School board chair Cathy Williams says she's baffled and outraged.
AYP Test Results (Added: July 22, 2011)
The President of the Muscogee County School Board weighs in on the latest results. (more)
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COLUMBUS, Ga. --
Outrage and shock is how Muscogee County School District's chair Cathy Williams described her reaction to the preliminary Adequate Yearly Progress results.
"We need to stop the insanity," Williams said, echoing Diane Ravitch, one of the architects of No Child Left Behind (the public policy behind AYP).Ravitch is now telling the nation she got it wrong.
"It's a very, very flawed public policy," Williams said. "I wish somebody would tear it up."
Our media partner, The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, crunched the newly released numbers: 33 percent of
