The Richmond County Board of Education voted to sell another school and heard details about standardized test gains Tuesday.
In its final meeting for four members leaving office, as well as for resigned Superintendent Kenneth Bradshaw, the board also voted to enter a three-month consulting contract with Bradshaw.
The vote to sell A. Brian Merry Elementary School came after the board spent nearly two hours behind closed doors. Closing the school was part of the district’s master plan revealed earlier this year.
The board voted 6-3 to sell the Boy Scout Road school to CDM Southeast for an unmentioned amount. Trustees Charlie Walker, Walter Eubanks and Helen Minchew voted no to the sale. Trustee Wayne Frazier was absent Tuesday.
In another vote that followed the closed-door session, the board voted 9-0 to enter a six-month contract with Associate Superintendent Malinda Cobb to serve as interim superintendent.
On the test scores, the system improved in every component of the state’s college and career-ready performance index, or CCRPI, said William Smith, the system accountability coordinator.
Smith said the system’s strategic plan is directly aligned to the state’s accountability system.
The accountability components include four for elementary and middle schools and five, with the addition of graduation rates, for high schools.
“Across the board through all components in elementary, middle and high school, we went up in every single component,” he said.
A handful of schools achieved scores of 100 or even “100+” in some of the categories, he said.
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