Assistance teams meet with superintendent
Published 12:00 am Saturday, January 27, 2007
By Frank DeLoache
Salisbury Post
The members of the state-appointed School Assistance Team met with the
superintendent of the Rowan-Salisbury School System and her curriculum team
for two hours Friday morning and made preparations for visiting local
schools, where they will interview principals, teachers and students.
The three-member team will return Tuesday morning — Monday is a scheduled holiday
for students – and spend the day at Granite Quarry and China Grove
elementary schools. Those are the two schools in the system that receive
federal Title 1 funds for tutoring and other programs that have not made
Acceptable Yearly Progress (AYP) under federal guidelines for four years.
Superintendent Dr. Judy Grissom welcomed the three-member team and said
local officials are looking forward to the team’s feedback.
Likewise, the team members praised the work of Rowan-Salisbury educators.
“We’ve been very impressed with what we’ve seen here,” Doris Wilson, a
retired Charlotte educator who is leading the team, said. “We’ve all seen
lots of school systems, some good and some not so good, and from everything
we’ve seen here, it seems like things are going in the right direction.”
“This is one of the most organized group of people,” added Vicki Roland, a
member of the state team from Shelby.