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Wednesday, January 29, 2003
School Board rejects AP credit policy - Richard Edwards
A recommendation to endorse an administrative policy allowing high school students to receive additional credit for Advanced Placement courses taken over the Internet was voted down by the McMinn County School Board Monday. As the result, Director of Schools John Forgety said the direction he’s received from the Board is to return to the policy in place in August 2001, which wouldn’t allow the extra credit for online courses.... Board member Larry Cantrell said he understood the issue of online courses would have to be addressed and said he wasn’t opposed to Internet courses.... Board member Debbie Willson, who supported the Policy Committee’s recommendation, urged the Board not to “become stale in our approach” to education. She said she saw the online courses as moving forward and “thinking outside the box.” “To me, this is one of the most exciting things the school system has come forward with, that I know,” she said.
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