Savannah High School will no longer be on the "needs improvement" list under the federal No Child Left Behind law. The building will now house two separate schools. They are the new School of Liberal Studies and School of Law and Criminal Justice at Savannah High School. They will begin the school year with a clean slate with no prior AYP history. As former Savannah High's principal and current School of Liberal Studies principal, Dr. Toney Jordan, says, "it will no longer have a black cloud looming overhead,"
Both Dr. Jordan and Aretha Rhone-Bush, the district's senior director of compensatory programs, say the small schools model has worked in other districts and it will be successful here as well.
Under federal law, new schools will receive their first AYP determinations at the end of the first school year it is in operation. The School of Liberal Studies and School of Law and Criminal Justice will receive their first AYP reports in July 2010.
With no AYP history, students who live in the attendance zone for what's known as Savannah High, will not have the option of going to another school in the district. Students from the entire district, can, however, apply to attend either of the two schools.
For more information about the new programs, you can contact Dr. Toney Jordan, principal at the School of Liberal Studies or Angie Lewis, principal of the School of Law and Criminal Justice. (Lewis was an assistant principal at Savannah Arts Academy.) The number is 912-395-5050.
Adequate Yearly Progress, or AYP, is a measure of academic progress as part of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). Each state sets a benchmark to determine if students are learning what they need to know.
Tune in to News 3 at 6 tonight. News 3 education reporter, Randi Hempel, talks to district officials about the change.
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