Atlanta
(2008-09-09)
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Last week, Governor Sonny Perdue acknowledged that he is looking into more forceful ways to help troubled school districts. But Donald McAdams, of the Texas-based Center for Reform of School Systems, says state action is not a magic bullet:
MCADAMS: The history of states coming in and taking over and then just cleaning everything up and making it work real well and then giving it back to the community, there's not a really good track record there.
McAdams says state intervention may erode the sense of involvement that local communities need with their schools, and it often leaves a leadership vacuum when the state leaves.
MCADAMS: If the politics of the community is really dysfunctional, just temporarily having the state run the district doesn't solve the fundamental problem.
On Monday, Clayton County school district officials announced that they will not appeal their loss of accreditation.
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