09/11/08 Once Again The State Is Giving A Failing Grade To High Paid School Administrators Who Are Ineffective

Greenwich School Children Are Struggling

Under These Failed School Administrators

Greenwich Children Are Being Left Behind!!!!

Schools cited over progress

By Colin Gustafson

Staff Writer
Article Launched: 09/11/2008 02:32:05 AM EDT

...Central Middle School did not reach achievement targets in reading and math for economically disadvantaged students and students with disabilities, the same subgroup that the middle school was cited for in 2006.

This Is Progress?????

At Greenwich High School, students with disabilities did not reach achievement targets in reading and math, and Hispanic and economically disadvantaged students did not meet the target in math, according to the state's latest figures reported by local school officials.

Superintendent of Schools Betty Sternberg said that because of a discrepancy in the state's preliminary reports, she could not confirm whether Hispanic and economically disadvantaged students also failed to reach achievement targets in reading. ....

Betty wants to blame the children for her failed leadership....

The rising achievement targets "make it harder for schools, especially those that are having issues with specific subgroups, to do what they need to keep those subgroups off the list," Sternberg said

But the parents are not buying it....

However, Penny Resnick, a mother of a GHS student, said she wasn't surprised by the NCLB results.

She believes that underprivileged students at GHS do not always receive the special attention they need.

"There seem to be two different socioeconomic extremes and not a lot in the middle," she said.
"It is kind of a wake-up call," she added of the state's academic progress report. "It points out something that need to be corrected. The school needs to devote more resources to some of these kids. We need to try to not give up on them."

Where are the high paid school administrative failures?????

Efforts to reach GHS Headmaster Al Capasso and Central Middle School Principal Carol Walsh were unsuccessful yesterday.

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State cites lagging Greenwich scores

Colin Gustafson
Staff Writer
Article Launched: 09/10/2008 03:24:24 PM EDT

Greenwich High and Central Middle schools have been cited by the state for not making adequate yearly progress in math and reading in the 2007-08 school year, based on their students' performance on two state-mandated exams.

The citation is the second time in three school years that Central has been added to the list.

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