an identified need. Each teacher must have a specific plan describing what courses they will take to improve their teaching and management skills, and administrators will study ITBS scores to determine why some teachers and principals produce students who consistently earn poor scores.
An editorial in The Atlanta Journal (Be bold with reforms, 1999) expressed some of the hopes for the new education reform plan. It calls for: intensive summer programs or a different curriculum for the same grade for students lacking in basic reading, writing and math skills, rather than social promotion; higher standards for those training to become educators; allowing school boards to privatize schools if the public school cannot be improved as is; and steer clear of simply throwing more money at schools in an attempt to improve them.
Summarizing the efforts to improve Atlanta's schools, and thus the ITBS scores, the reforms call for: a) accountability - yearly testing grades one through 8 in English and language arts, mathematics and reading, and adding science a
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