Plymouth-Canton OKs Student Transfers From Northville
Plymouth-Canton to accept transfers from focus schools, adult special education.
Plymouth-Canton Community Schools will now accept transfers from Northville Public Schools students under two new measures approved Tuesday by the Plymouth-Canton Board of Education. Michigan now allows students from state-designated “focus schools” to transfer to other schools in the same district. However, because both Hillside and Meads Mill middle schools in Northville were designated as focus schools, the students were able to transfer to an adjacent district. Focus schools are designated by the state as schools with wide achievement gaps on the Michigan Merit Exam between the top and bottom 30 percent of students. The Plymouth-Canton board voted Tuesday to allow these students to transfer to Pioneer Middle School in Plymouth. To date…
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K. Sose
6:37 pm on Thursday, September 13, 2012
The focus schools thing is a joke. Meads Mill took first place in the Michigan science olympiad state tournament and seventh in the national tournament. East Middle school in Plymouth is home to the talented and gifted program which has students that consistently score in the 99th percentile on standardized tests. Yet both of these schools must now jump through hoops and state bureaucracy put … more ›