1. Expand Chattahoochee Technical College
to provide comprehensive higher education, as required to support
our citizens and an expanded and diversified Paulding business,
education, and government community. This should include Associates,
Bachelors, Masters and PhD’s degrees. This should also include work
force skills training and diversified continued educational
offerings. This will require expansion of Chattahoochee Technical
College facilities and partnerships with other education systems
offering courses in Paulding and by distance learning.
2. Reduce the illiteracy rate.
3. Encourage the existing Paulding work force to pursue training
and educational opportunities to increase their individual
productivity. This is a requirement for attracting higher paid jobs.
4. Provide opportunities for learning to manage and budget an
individual’s income and expenses.
5. Encourage students in colleges in Greater Atlanta to intern in
Paulding County.
1. Expect every student to graduate from
high school, ready to enter Technical College, University or go to
work. This will require Paulding to be competitive with our
surrounding counties in graduation rates, increasing test scores at
grade levels K-12 and better academic achievement in reading,
writing, math, science and life skills. Encourage students beginning
in elementary school to pursue a middle school and high school path
that recognizes the importance of education beyond high school. The
results should be an increased number of students entering technical
college and university or pursuing skills training.
2. Develop a culture that honors and
acknowledges academic achievement. Expect students and their parents
to be accountable and responsible for the student’s behavior and
academic performance. This will depend on increased parental
interaction with the student and the teachers. When the parent
cannot provide this interaction with the student, community
organizations such as churches, civic clubs, businesses, and
individuals, will strive to provide mentors.
3. Ensure that every student can read and
write at their grade level.
4. Develop more effective and efficient
tutorial and remedial programs. Aggressively identify students who
need this assistance and provide this as early as possible in their
career path.
5. Create innovative teaching procedures
and technology with the flexibility to be compatible with each
individual student’s learning style.
6. Encourage Paulding County, city
governments, the Paulding County School System, and our state
government to strive together to eliminate overcrowding in the
schools.
7. Increase business involvement in education in a partnership
with parents and the school system. This should result in increasing
academic achievement and preparation of a more skilled Paulding work
force.
8. Require accountability from teachers and the school system.
9. Decrease the number of students absent and late to school. (In
2002-2003, with 19,403 students enrolled, 39% missed 10 days or
more.)
10. Provide accelerated reading programs at all levels.
11. Consider reducing student/teacher ratio.
12. Improve the technical/vocational programs. Partner with the
business community to ensure that the skills produced meets the
requirements of Paulding County employers. This may involve programs
such as internships and apprenticeships.
13. Enhance the gifted student program and increase the
percentage of students participating in the program. Encourage
parents to understand the importance of involvement in the gifted
program.
14. Enhance art, music, physical education and other non-academic
courses that help engage and retain the student’s interest and
broaden their education.
15. Eliminate grade creep where students receive a higher grade
than is warranted by their achievement and knowledge.
16. Incorporate our Core Values in parenting and educating our
young people. Involve fathers in our young people’s education. This
is vitally important for the young people in Special Education and
the boys who make up an unusually high percentage of Special
Education students.
17. Develop creative programs to reduce the percentage of
students in Special Education classes.
18. Utilize more technology in the classroom.
19. Reward students who learn or know a language other than
English. Provide additional foreign languages other than Spanish and
alternatives for Spanish speaking students. Provide diversity in
classroom teaching styles for Spanish speaking students.
20. Ensure that students in Special Education classes receive
creative and challenging opportunities to learn and advance in their
educational path.
21. Reduce the number of students on prescription drugs such as
Ritalin.
22. Strive to provide playground equipment at all schools.
23. Provide opportunities for enrichment and involvement for
home-schoolers.
