Fulton County Schools
Title I Annual Seminar
2010
Title I schools will all PASS!!!
August 17, 2010
Principals, Bookkeepers & Parent Liaisons
Meeting
tdm/8/15/2010 12:59 PM
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Public Service Announcement – please don’t
shoot the messengers – thank you 
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Agenda
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Title I Updates
 A Blueprint for Reform: The Reauthorization…
 AYP
 SES - Differentiated Accountability
 Summary Data
 ED and GaDOE updates
 Findings from Cross Functional Monitoring Visit –
April 19, 2010
What’s New?
 Buddy Support Program
 Renzulli
 Document Sharing
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Guess what? Title I has a new
name >>>
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It’s hiding somewhere – Can you
find it?
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Door prize for the 1st person to find it.
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PASS
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Passing and breaking down barriers
to success!
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PASS
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Title I Schools will PASS every
obstacle. HOW???
by….Principals & Parents working
collaboratively to increase student
Achievement in Title I Schools.
Together we [admin, schools,
parents, community] will eliminate
the achievement gap in Title I
Schools.
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A Blueprint for Reform: The Reauthorization
of Elementary and Secondary Education Act
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The Blueprint for the
reauthorization of the Elementary
and Secondary Act recently released
is a call challenging us to conduct
business with a different
perspective.
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A Blueprint for Reform
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The Blueprint represents the overhaul of
the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) which
was established in 2001 under the last
reauthorization of ESEA.
It replaces NCLB’s requirement that every
American child reach proficiency in reading
and math with the goal that all students
should graduate from high school collegeand career-ready by 2020.
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A Blueprint…. (continued)
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It contains the following five
priorities:
College- and Career-Ready Students
Great Teachers and Leaders
Equity and Opportunity for All Students
Raise the Bar and Reward Excellence
Promote innovation and continuous
improvement
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ESEA Reauthorization:
NCLB and the Blueprint
Based on information from:
A Blueprint for Reform
July 2010
Core Policies to Maintain in ESEA Reauthorization
Disaggregation and focus on improving
performance for all groups of students
Focus on equity
Standards-based reform and accountability
NCLB & Blueprint: Accountability
NCLB
Blueprint
“Race to the bottom”
for state standards
States adopt college- and career-ready standards.
Focus on proficiency;
schools making progress
can still be “failing”
Differentiation of schools based on
student growth and school progress.
Many ways to “fail,”
no recognition for success
Real rewards for high-poverty schools, districts and states
showing real progress, especially in serving underserved
populations and closing achievement gaps.
Exclusive focus on tests,
narrowing of curriculum
Develop and support the use of better assessments.
Look beyond assessments to determine what a school
needs, including attendance, conditions for learning,
course completion, to paint a fuller picture of a school.
Allow use of additional subjects.
Additional resources for developing a well-rounded
curriculum
NCLB & Blueprint: Accountability
NCLB
Blueprint
Mandated SES and choice
More local flexibility around how best to serve schools;
no mandated SES or choice.
Over-identifies schools
Targets more limited portion of
schools for significant intervention.
Allowing persistently lowperforming schools
to avoid real change
Meaningful change in persistently low-performing
schools.
Punitive/labels
without support
Meaningful investment in low-performing schools.
All consequences focused
at the school level
Holding every level of the system
responsible for improvement and support.
NCLB & Blueprint: Teachers and Leaders
NCLB
Blueprint
Not focused enough on
building the profession
and teacher voice
Utilize surveys of teachers (around working conditions,
professional development & support), and surveys of
conditions for learning that include teacher perspective.
No acknowledgement
or support of teacher
collaboration
Invest in expanded learning time programs that provide
more time for educators to plan and collaborate.
Equitable distribution
requirements
not meaningful
Greater focus on getting great teachers where they are
needed most.
Ignored need for better
school leaders
Invest in preparing and improving better leaders.
NCLB & Blueprint: Broad Principles
NCLB
Ignored important factors
like conditions for learning
Narrow vision of
school’s role
No acknowledgement that
equitable funding matters
Blueprint
Make accountability about more than test scores for most
schools.
Fund development of measurement systems around
conditions for learning.
Greater opportunities and structures
for positive adult-student relationships.
Funding for providing comprehensive services so that
students are safe, healthy, able to focus on learning.
Encourage funding equity.
AYP Preliminary Results 2010
 71
of 98 or 72% of all Fulton
County schools made AYP
 31 of 54 or 57% of Title I
schools made AYP
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Conversely – 23 Title schools compared to 5 Title
schools the previous year did not make AYP
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Supplemental Educational Services
and Differentiated Accountability
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SES schools
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Renaissance MS
Banneker HS
Creekside HS
Differentiated Accountability
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McNair MS
McClarin HS
North Springs HS
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Applause for great improvements!
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While many Fulton schools posted increases over last year’s
scores, in some cases the increases were not enough to make
Adequate Yearly Progress. However, of the schools not making
AYP, 10 showed gains for three consecutive years in math for the
All Students’ subgroup
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Heritage
HE Holmes
Liberty Point
Mimosa
Oakley
Renaissance MS
PD West MS
Ridgeview MS
Banneker HS
Tri-Cities HS
44.6
54.0
64.0
67.0
46.8
50.0
49.4
67.0
49.4
61.1
57.9
74.7
73.6
72.9
62.3
65.5
57.6
78.8
61.8
67.2
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Applause ….
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In addition, two schools showed
gains over last year in math for the
‘All Students’ subgroup.
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LT Nolan
North Springs
55.9
68.4
66.4
77.3
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LEA Cross Functional Monitoring
Team Report – April 19,2010
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For the 2009-2010 School Year – we
are non-complaint due to 10 reported
findings by the LEA Cross Functional
Monitoring Team Report
FINDINGS
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3.3 Fulton County Schools did not provide evidence that parents
were notified of their Choice option at Hamilton Holmes
Elementary School, Mimosa Elementary School, Spalding Drive
Elementary School, Paul D. West Middle School, Renaissance
Middle School, Creekside High School, Langston Hughes High
School, and Westlake High School. The Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) 34 §200.37(b)(4)(iv) requires that “Parents
must be notified by the LEA that their child is eligible for public
school choice sufficiently in advance of, but no later than 14
calendar days before, the start of the school year for which public
school choice is being offered.”
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Findings (continued)
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3.4
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3.7
Fulton County Schools did not provide evidence that parents were notified of
their Choice option at Hamilton Holmes Elementary School, Mimosa Elementary School,
Spalding Drive Elementary School, Paul D. West Middle School, Renaissance Middle
School, Creekside High School, Langston Hughes High School, and Westlake High
School. The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 34 §200.37(b)(4)(iv) requires that
“Parents must be notified by the LEA that their child is eligible for public school choice
sufficiently in advance of, but no later than 14 calendar days before, the start of the
school year for which public school choice is being offered.
The Fulton County School District did not provide evidence that school level
parent involvement policies were distributed to parents of children participating in the
school’s Title I program as required by section 1118(b)(1) of The Elementary and
Secondary Education Act (ESEA) as reauthorized in 2001. The requirement under this
section states, “Each school served under this part shall jointly develop with, and
distribute to, parents of participating children a written parental involvement
policy….”
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Findings (continued)
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3.8
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8.3
Fulton County School District did not provide evidence that schools
developed school-parent compacts as required by the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act (ESEA) as reauthorized in 2001, Section 1118. The requirement under
this section states, “each school served under this part shall jointly develop with
parents for all children served under this part a school-parent compact that outlines
how parents, the entire school staff, and students will share the responsibility for
improved student academic achievement…” Compacts were not consistently signed
and dated by all parties; therefore, it could not be ascertained that the compacts were
for students and parents participating for FY2010.
Five Fulton County Targeted Assistance plans were randomly selected to discern
whether or not the schools use student achievement data to make instructional decisions and
coordinate with the regular program. The multiple selection criteria used by Fulton County do not
meet the requirements of Section 1115(b)(B) of The Elementary and Secondary Education Act
(ESEA) as reauthorized in 2001 which mandate that eligibility for Title I service be based on
academic achievement and states, “eligible children are children identified by the school as failing,
or most at risk of failing, to meet the State’s challenging student academic achievement standards
on the basis of multiple, educationally related, objective criteria…” On three of the five plans
selected, Ridgeview Charter Middle, Langston Hughes High, and Holcomb Bridge Elementary, the
multiple selection criteria used to rank students did not match the criteria described in the targeted
assistance plans.
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Findings (continued)
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8.4
Five Fulton County Targeted Assistance plans were randomly selected to
discern whether or not the schools use student achievement data to make instructional
decisions and coordinate with the regular program. The multiple selection criteria used
by Fulton County do not meet the requirements of Section 1115(b)(B) of The
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) as reauthorized in 2001 which
mandate that eligibility for Title I service be based on academic achievement and
states, “eligible children are children identified by the school as failing, or most at risk
of failing, to meet the State’s challenging student academic achievement standards on
the basis of multiple, educationally related, objective criteria…” The Targeted
Assistance Checklist for LEA Coordinator and Title I Education Program Specialist as
revised 2/22/08 requires “1. Description of instructional strategies and programs which
coordinate with and support the regular program – a. Grades and subject areas to be
served, b. Instructional strategies to be used, c. Scheduling models to be used, d.
Supplemental instructional activities.” On three of the five plans randomly selected
(Holcomb Bridge Middle School, Langston Hughes High School, and Ridgeview Charter
Middle School) the multiple selection criteria used to rank students did not match the
criteria described in the targeted assistance plans. Four of the five plans randomly
selected (Langston Hughes High School, Ridgeview Charter Middle School, Sandy
Springs Middle School, and Westlake High School) were missing one or more of the
required items in the description of the programs,
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Findings …
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13.1
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13.3
The Fulton County School District’s property inventory records for
equipment and real property do not include serial numbers, and, in some cases, are
missing property descriptions. Additionally, not all inventories are up to date as they
do not include FY2010 purchases. Section 80.31(d)(1) of the Education Department
General Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) states that "Property records must be
maintained that include a description of the property, a serial number or other
identification number, the source of the property, who holds title, the acquisition date,
and cost of the property, percentage of Federal participation in the cost of the property,
the location, use and condition of the property, and any ultimate disposition data
including the date of disposal and sale price of the property."
The Fulton County School District’s property inventory records for equipment and
real property do not include serial numbers, and, in some cases, are missing property
descriptions. Additionally, not all inventories are up to date as they do not include FY2010
purchases. Section 80.31(d)(1) of the Education Department General Administrative Regulations
(EDGAR) states that "Property records must be maintained that include a description of the
property, a serial number or other identification number, the source of the property, who holds title,
the acquisition date, and cost of the property, percentage of Federal participation in the cost of the
property, the location, use and condition of the property, and any ultimate disposition data including
the date of disposal and sale price of the property.
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Findings …
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13.4
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16.1
The Fulton County School District presented no evidence to
indicate that periodic physical inventories of equipment and real property
are conducted since inventories were not signed and dated to indicate a
physical inventory was taken.
No supporting source data was provided by Fulton County School District
to document the Pre-k Free/Reduced Meals count on the Eligible Attendance Areas
Spreadsheet. The local educational agency (LEA) shall use the same measure of
poverty, which measure shall be the number of children ages 5 through 17 in poverty
counted in the most recent census data approved by the Secretary, the number of
children eligible for free and reduced priced lunches under the Richard B. Russell
National School Lunch Act, the number of children in families receiving assistance under
the State program funded under Part A of the Title IV of the Social Security Act, or the
number of children eligible to receive medical assistance under the Medicaid program,
or a composite of such indicators, with respect to all school attendance areas in the
LEA. Georgia has determined that Districts will use the number of children eligible for
free and reduced priced lunches under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act
to measure the poverty measure of its schools.
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Title I Part A, 2010
Title
I, Part A –
Helping Disadvantaged
Children Meet High
Standards
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Warning CAUTION…CAUTION
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Things to watch out for from ED &
GaDOE
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Things to Watch
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Revision of SWP and TA plans, include month, date and year
 Be sure you have documentation that parents met with
the team for the revision of the SWP and TA plans. In
other words you must invite parents and have a copy of
the invitation documenting that all parents were invited.
 The SWP and TA plan must be shared with the parents –
be able to document it (i.e. have it on the annual meeting
agenda as one of the items for discussion/shared) with
sign in sheets
Revision of Parent Policy both LEA and school level with
month, date and year. Keep agendas and sign in sheets,
parents on committees, invitation to invite parents to meeting
to revise the policies.
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Things to Watch …
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Keep inventory of all Title I equipment of items that have a
shelf life of at least one year. Inventory must include: item,
cost, vendor, location, date of purchase and funding source.
Parent Meetings –
 Light snacks - no meals are allowed. Served only during
meal times
Food is not allowed at staff workshops or meetings. The only
time food is allowed is at parent meetings that are academic
focused. No snacks with Title I funding during testing. You
can supplement after school snacks once you have met
school nutrition requirements. Must keep detailed records of
the cost of the snack and with the school nutrition required
cost and the Title I supplemental cost.
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Things to watch…
Parent Meetings –
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Light snacks - no meals are allowed. Served only during meal times
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Food is not allowed at staff workshops or meetings. The only time food is allowed is at
parent meetings that are academic focused. No snacks with Title I funding during
testing. You can supplement after school snacks once you have met school nutrition
requirements. Must keep detailed records of the cost of the snack and with the school
nutrition required cost and the Title I supplemental cost.
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Parent Involvement/Parent policies – all areas (ED is really monitoring this
closely) see Data Bank sheet in your bags.
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TA programs – be careful how staff is used especially at the high school so as to avoid
supplanting.
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TA Schools must show
 1)eligibility roster
 2) multiple selection criteria (educationally related)
 3)served roster (served students in rank order)
 4) must have a reading rosters and math rosters
Title I Director must pre-approve all Title I purchases with signature and date. Be mindful the Title I Director dated signature must be before items are purchased.
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Things to watch…
TA programs – be careful how staff is used especially at
the high school so as to avoid supplanting.
 TA Schools must show
 1)eligibility roster
 2) multiple selection criteria (educationally related)
 3)served roster (served students in rank order)
 4) must have a reading rosters and math rosters
Title I Director must pre-approve all Title I purchases with
signature and date. Be mindful - the Title I Director dated
signature must be before items are purchased.
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Practices associated with firings,
demotions and alleged prison terms
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AJC articles–federal, state & local $$
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Book Sales spell trouble – 08/15/10
 School funds used to purchase thousands of
dollars worth of books that school
administrators had written
Former Dekalb Schools chief, three other indicted
05/27/10
 RICA – Racketeer Influenced and Corruption
Act [falsifying public documents, competitive
bid process, overtime, p-card, 171 acts, max
– 105-115 years in prison].
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Summary Reports for schools
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Total Pre-approvals processed by school =
4,296 or $6,666,324
Highest month for pre-approvals
 April 2010 = 1001 pre-approvals
 Don’t forget Spring Break
 Average = 455 per month
Total Miscellaneous (A7, reclass, property
control…) = 2,017 or average of 224 per
month
This does not include SES, payroll, ND,…
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What’s New for 2010???
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Renzulli Learning – provided for all ES and MS
 TA students only in TA schools
Cluster Data and Instructional Support Teams
Revised T-Train Manual – SAP Empowerment
New and improved Budget Manual
New Parent Liaison Manual
New SES Contact and Vendor Manuals
Document Sharing – Paperless, efficient, and faster way
to manage budgets, pre-approvals and coming soon –
binder processes.
Buddy Support Program
Selected School Resource books (All,ELL,MS/HS,DSS/IC)
GaDOE and @YourSchool
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What’s New for 2010???
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Read it LOUD ! Campaign
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National campaign, headed by
Chairman - Wally Amos of the Read It
Loud! Foundation and other partner
organizations aims to have 5 million
adults reading to young children daily.
www.readitloud.org
MARSYS Digital Platform [digital
networking via cell phone and other
digital content]
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Resources
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Technical Assistance
Understand that constituents and
stakeholders may want to be
assured that all possible resources
are being used, but in such a way
that costs will be properly managed.
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Recognitions
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Buddy Program
Certificates for schools with less
than 15% remaining funds in
regular Title I, Part A
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[as of 07/29/10]
Thank you, Gracias, Merci
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Guess what? Title I has a new
name >>>
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It’s hiding somewhere – Did you
find it?
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Door prize.
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Break-out Sessions
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Check agenda and room numbers
Grab your lunch on your way out
after the end of the last session
Thank you for your attendance and
attention today!
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Thanks for coming!!!!!
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Please don’t forget to fill out the
evaluation forms that will be
distributed in your last session.
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Contact information – Title I
Department - [year round staff]
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Tawana D. Miller, Ed.D.
 millert@fulton.k12.ga.us
Marrietta Jackson-Carter
 cartermj@fulton.k12.ga.us
Ethel Lett Washington
 washingtonE1@fulton.k12.ga.us
Pam Baisden
 baisdenp@fulton.k12.ga.us
Sonya West
 wests@fulton.k12.ga.us
Harriet Perry
 perryh@fulton.k12.ga.us
Vickie Stephens
 stephensv@fulton.k12.ga.us
Terri Chow
 chowt@fulton.k12.ga.us
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