Ready To Tackle Challenges: A Talk With APS Superintendent Candidate Dr. Meria Carstarphen
Meria Carstarphen will replace Superintendent Erroll B. Davis, Jr., who was appointed as superintendent of APS on July 1, 2011. His contract ends June 30, 2014.
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This coming Monday, the Atlanta Board of Education is expected to vote on the district’s lone candidate for superintendent.
From hundreds, Dr. Meria Carstarphen was selected by the Atlanta Public Schools superintendent search committee to become the next school chief.
Carstarphen would leave the Austin school district where she’s been superintendent since 2009.
The educator recently visited our WABE studios and talked with Rose Scott.
Their conversation begins with Carstarphen, in her own words, describing a world class superintendent.
According to a statement from the Atlanta Public Schools:
Under Carstarphen’s leadership, the Austin Independent School District realized a number of achievements including but not limited to:
● Improving graduation rates to an all-time high of 82.5% and reduced longitudinal dropout rate by 25%
● Increasing the African American graduation rate to 79.6 percent, specifically African American males to 76.2%
● Increasing overall SAT and ACT exam scores
● Increasing college application rates to an all-time high of 92%
● Improving attendance rates at all levels to 95%
● In state accountability, elementary schools exceeded the state passing rate in reading, math, writing and science; middle schools ranked first among comparable districts in four areas; and high school’s passing rates on the end-of-course exams met or exceeded the State rate for 10 of the 11 tests.
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