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I found an advantage of a unified school system!

Unified cheating in

Albany:



The Herald learned that Murfree and Coleman had been invited by Bowers,
who is heading an investigation to determine whether there had been
cheating on the DCSS’s 2009 Criterion-Referenced Competency Test exams.

and

Atlanta:

An investigative panel has recommended that 109 principals, assistant


principals, school-based testing coordinators and teachers face further
scrutiny or sanctions after it found evidence of suspected cheating at
58 Atlanta Public Schools.

Atlanta and Albany have unified school systems, and they have cheating scandals.
Coincidence? I think not.

-jsq

MAGE SOLAR forging ahead in south Georgia

Valdosta and Lowndes County are not the only places with sunshine
in south Georgia, and Albany and Dougherty County are perhaps
already more organized.

Danny Carter wrote in the Albany Herald 14 May 2011,

Solar power meeting set:
A solar power conference is scheduled for Tuesday in Albany.



MAGE SOLAR, looking for both customers and installers, is hosting a
program at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Albany Civic Center.

Susanne Fischer Quinn, communications manager for MAGE SOLAR, said there
are just 13 certified installers of solar panels in Georgia.

The opportunity for growth in this area is tremendous, she said.
Tuesday’s program will open with remarks by Jeff Sinyard, chairman
of the Dougherty County Commission, and Albany City Commissioner Roger
Marietta

Then, a panel of representatives from MAGE, the U.S. Department of
Agriculture and the University of Georgia will present information about
solar power in Georgia.

We already did a smaller version of this, but what have we done since?

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