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talgarin@marietta-city.k12.ga.us
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May 22, 2008

MARIETTA HIGH SCHOOL SELECTED
FOR STOP ON GPEE 16TH ANNUAL BUS TRIP
Event Showcases Achieving Schools, Emphasizes Best Practices

Marietta, GA - Marietta High School (MHS) has earned a stop on the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education (GPEE) 16th Annual Bus Trip Across Georgia. The annual tour is a showcase for top achieving public schools and shares best practices with educators, business, government, and community leaders from around the state. Schools selected as stops are those with a proven record of accomplishment of academic excellence, educational innovation and sustained performance.

Dr. Stephen Dolinger, president of the Partnership, said, “Marietta High School is proof that large American high schools can reach high levels of achievement.” He explained the school has almost an 80 percent graduation rate and has an SAT pass rate for seniors that are almost 70 points above the state average.

Dolinger added that Marietta High School, as well as the other 2008 schools, represents what is right in Georgia’s public education system. “In the case of Marietta High School, our bus trip participants will see a strong program that earned the school a “Top 5 percent of U.S. high schools’’ ranking two years running, in 2006 and 2007 by Newsweek magazine.

The event conducted in two three-day increments in October and November, has Marietta High School as a scheduled stop on Oct. 29, 2008. This year’s theme is “Strengthening the Pipeline to Increase Graduation.” For more information about the event, visit www.gpee.org.

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