[gsis_admins] Re: SB 372 - unweight GPAs for determining HOPE eligibility
- From: Twanda Banks <BanksT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:37:13 +0000
Sounds good to me. I would not want a situation like Anna duscussed at Quitman.
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From: Denise Epperson
Date:2014/02/24 2:09 PM (GMT-06:00)
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Subject: [gsis_admins] Re: SB 372 - unweight GPAs for determining HOPE
eligibility
Jesse and Anthony,
I think this example would be great to include in your email, just maybe leave
the county name out. What does everyone think?
Denise Epperson
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On Behalf Of Tarleton, Anna S
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 2:59 PM
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Subject: [gsis_admins] Re: SB 372 - unweighted GPAs for determining HOPE
eligibility
I can add a real-life example. In Henry County, they wound up paying for a
kid’s first year of college because the HOPE GPA that printed on their local
transcripts was not calculated like the GSFC. That is when they removed it from
their transcripts. The Student Services Director actually found a Ford
Foundation Scholarship to pay for it, but they would have been paying it out of
their pockets if she had not been able to do that.
Anna
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[mailto:gsis_admins-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Denise Epperson
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Subject: [gsis_admins] Re: SB 372 - unweighted GPAs for determining HOPE
eligibility
This is what I came up for the governance board meeting. I had Bob Lahl send
me his file layout to make it easier. Anything else?
Streamlining the connection between GSFC and DOE through SLDS, this will depend
on GSFC conversion process.
1. If SB 372 (requiring local school systems to calculate and provide a
GPA for grades 09-11 for HOPE eligibility) passes, we will need to have some
link between the districts to GSFC that is secure. Or this could be
accomplished through the parent portal of the SLDS system. We don’t believe
there is any school system that is equipped or wants to put their necks out to
post a HOPE calculated GPA without it coming from GSFC.
2. GSFC is removing their third party software; therefore, the link would
be direct to GSFC.
3. The DOE already collect the information that GSFC collects with
minimal additional field.
4. We could maintain the users and permissions in one place instead of
multiple places.
5. We have to report bridge information to the DOE in SR for CCRPI.
Denise Epperson
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From: Denise Epperson
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Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 9:26 AM
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Subject: FW: SB 372 - unweighted GPAs for determining HOPE eligibility
Importance: High
Welcome back for most of you. I know most have been on mid-winter break and
that is why I wasn’t pushing this issue and a few other issues that we as a
board will need to look at together.
1. For those not on the SLDS Governance board, just for your
information, we have a meeting coming up in March. At this meeting, I have
requested time to discuss the DOE working with GSFC to transfer data between
them rather than having to upload to two different sites. This might be in
vain, but it’s worth a shot.
2. I believe I have already forwarded you the information that Bob
Swiggum sent regarding SB 167. If you did not receive it, it is attached. It
wouldn’t hurt for the board to review the bill and outline concerns/give
suggestions and email committee members as soon as possible. This will need to
be compared to FERPA and to see where it conflicts. In fact, we may want to
see if Levette would be a ghost source by phone for us to keep her from getting
into any trouble.
3. If you scroll to the bottom of this email on SB 372, you will see
where Josh Griffis would like us, as an organization, to address this bill
regarding the local school systems giving GPA’s to determine HOPE eligibility.
As we know, this would not be possible unless there was a way for GSFC to give
us this data. But, as an individual school system giving this data out, we are
setting ourselves up for a lawsuit.
Carolyn, Anna and Priscilla, would you work on SB 167? Jesse and Anthony will
you work on SB 372? I would like everyone else to read both bills and put in
your two cents. This is a group effort. Please no slackers, this is part of
our job as board members and representatives of the counties of Georgia. Let
try to have this finished and out by Friday if not sooner.
http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/en-US/display/20132014/SB/167
http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/en-US/display/20132014/SB/372
Denise Epperson
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From: Carolyn Oliver [mailto:COliver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 8:02 AM
To: Josh Griffis; Noralee Deason;
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Anna Tarleton; Swaim, Anthony; Denise Epperson
Subject: RE: SB 372 - unweighted GPAs for determining HOPE eligibility
Josh,
I agree that this would be a good item for the GSIS Advocacy Committee. Our
new president could pursue this.
Carolyn
From: Josh Griffis [mailto:josh.griffis@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 9:41 AM
To: Noralee Deason; Carolyn Oliver;
jpeavy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:jpeavy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Priscilla Willis;
Anna Tarleton; Swaim, Anthony; Denise Epperson
Subject: SB 372 - unweighted GPAs for determining HOPE eligibility
Check out this bill introduced in the Ga Senate requiring local school systems
to provide an unweighted GPA to each high school student at the conclusion of
each year “for the purposes of determining HOPE eligibility.”
http://www.ciclt.net/sn/leg/l_detail2.aspx?ClientCode=gsba&L_ID=814907&L_State=ga&L_Session=2013-2014&L_Prior=2011-2012
I’m going to email my senator and the members of the Education & Youth
Committee (from my personal email) and request that the bill be revised or
eliminated since GSFC determines HOPE eligibility; not local school systems.
Additionally, students can currently view their HOPE GPA on the gacollege411
website so I wonder if the committee of senators even knows that. Perhaps GSIS
could lobby the legislature and/or ask GSFC to contact the legislature on this
one as well.
Here is a list of the Education & Youth Committee:
http://www.senate.ga.gov/committees/en-US/Committee.aspx?Committee=120&Session=23
If the bill passes, we can always include the GPA on the end of year report
card to satisfy the requirement, but the GPA our SIS calculates is not the same
as the HOPE GPA so I’m concerned that it would increase calls to our counselors
with parents/students that thought they were HOPE eligible based on a GPA on
the report card.
Thanks,
Josh
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