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New interactive

reports make it easier for parents to learn about school progress

When the Georgia Department of Education releases Adequate Yearly Progress

determinations for all public schools and systems later this month, parents

will find it much easier to make sense of the results. Thanks to a newly

created interactive Web page, parents will have the ability to log on and

search through user friendly AYP reports showing statewide, system wide,

and individual school results. The information is clearly displayed and much

easier to understand than the reports of the past.

Although official AYP determinations will not be released until the end

of the month, a demonstration site is now available at www.gadoe.org.�Users

will be able to log on and click through a report showing the results for

a fictitious school. The demo site will help prepare the public for what

will be presented online when the official reports are released later this

month.

"We have an obligation to make it as easy as possible for the public

to access and understand these results," said State Superintendent of

Schools Kathy Cox. "The new online reports will help take the mystery

out of AYP for everyone interested in Georgia's public schools."

The Georgia Department of Education Web site also features updated information

on Public School Choice, Supplemental Educational Services (free tutoring),

awards and consequences for Needs Improvement schools, and Unsafe School

Choice Option. This information, and much more, can be found at www.gadoe.org.