State oversight agency says Beaufort County’s public school system is “below average” and “in jeopardy”, trend is downward
Beaufort County’s public schools get D for “below average”, trend is downward toward flunking
The independent, nonpartisan group set up by the South Carolina state legislature to oversee improvement in our state’s K-12 public education system has given Beaufort County’s public schools a D for performance, which is “below average” and “in jeopardy” of not meeting next year’s performance goals. Our school system’s performance trend is downward compared to previous years, in the direction of flunking out.
The 2008 State of South Carolina Annual Report Card for the Beaufort County School District, issued by the South Carolina Education Oversight Committee (EOC), states that the performance trend in our county’s public schools is “below average” and is on a downward slope. In previous years the report card said our schools were “average”. Now the report card says our schools are “below average”.
EOC rates schools in the following categories. We have placed a letter score beside each category to conform to typical school grades:
A – Excellent
B – Good
C – Average
D – Below Average – this is Beaufort County’s grade
F – At Risk – in other words, flunk
In previous years our schools got a C. Now we have a D.
Spending keeps going up, performance goes down. There is only one more place downward to go before we flunk entirely.
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