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Press Release
Coweta County Schools

Date: January 26, 2010

Coweta Schools honored with 2009 Chamber of Commerce Prosperity Award

 
The Coweta County School system was recognized Tuesday by the Newnan-Coweta Chamber of Commerce with a 2009 “Prosperity Award,” at the Chamber’s 62nd annual Shareholder’s Celebration.

Superintendent Blake Bass, Board of Education Chairman Steve Bedrosian, and several school board members were on hand to accept the award, which congratulated the school system for exceptional accomplishments during 2009. Chamber Prosperity Awards honor companies and organizations that have significantly impacted prosperity and development in Coweta County over the previous year.

“One of the most important components of Coweta County’s prosperity is the quality of our schools, and our community is blessed with a school system that is consistently within the top 10 percent in Georgia,” said Candace Boothby, President of the Newnan-Coweta Chamber. “Coweta County Schools make Coweta attractive to new industry and residents, and provide a high quality of life to our community as a whole.”

Boothby noted that the Chamber has recognized the school system for several years for a number of accomplishments, including high state and national test scores to a low drop-out rate to innovative programs, and, as a representative of the business community, has partnered with the school system and West Georgia Technical College in the Central Educational Center Charter School since it’s inception.

“In 2009, however, Coweta County schools received exceptionally high marks for their accomplishments,” said Boothby, who cited four specific accomplishments during the year:
  • County high schools outscored the national average on the SAT by 7 points in 2009. It was the second year in a row that high schools outscored the national average, and increased their average SAT scores at a time that the nation and state average SAT scores declined.
     
  • In 2009, 100 percent of Coweta County schools - and the school system as a whole - met the standards on the National No Child Left Behind Act, “something relatively few school system in the state or nation did.”
     
  • The school system was also recognized during 2009 by the state Department of Education and Georgia Council of Special Education for having one of the highest-quality and highest-achieving Special Needs Programs in Georgia.
     
  • Also, in 2009, the Central Educational Center charter school was approved for its third charter renewal, at a time when 16 different Georgia communities have built their own Career Academies based on Coweta’s successful CEC charter school model.
     

Boothby said that the school system’s accomplishments make Coweta “a leader in education in this state, and a leader in charter school education.”

Coweta was one of four recipients of this year’s Chamber Prosperity Awards. Other honorees included the City of Senoia, and two Coweta industries – D&H Distributing and the USDA National Detector Dog Training Center.



The Coweta County School system was recognized by the Newnan-Coweta Chamber of Commerce with a 2009 “Prosperity Award,” at the Chamber’s 62nd annual Shareholder’s Celebration at the Central Educational Center on Tuesday. From left to right are Coweta County Board of Education Chairman Steve Bedrosian, board member Frank Farmer, Superintendent Blake Bass, Chamber President Steve Mader, board member Sue Brown, board member Mike Sumner and board member Graylin Ward.
 

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