ATLANTA (AP) -- Atlanta Public Schools will keep its
accreditation with a national agency.
School system spokesman Keith Bromery said Tuesday that the 50,000-student district has been taken off probation with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The district is now on "accreditation with advisement."
The Atlanta-based SACS put Atlanta on probation in January because of its squabbling, ineffective school board and threatened to pull accreditation entirely if the board didn't get its act together. The board has elected new leadership since then and worked to heal rifts.
Losing accreditation would have put the 50,000-student district in danger of losing private grants and could keep students from gaining admission and winning scholarships at some colleges.
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