ASHEBORO — The Randolph County School System has gotten the green light from the state on a proposed 2025-28 AIG Plan.
At the Randolph County Schools Board of Education’s May 18 meeting, the board was presented with an update on the district’s AIG plan, which had been under review by the Department of Public Instruction.
“It was marked complete, so there were no critical issues and no requirement to resubmit the plans,” said Debbie Sheron, AIG program specialist. “We’re very proud of that and we are actually pleased with the feedback that we received as well.”
Sheron said the plan was commended multiple times by DPI and there were only limited things that had to be adjusted in it.
“The plan has six standards and 44 practices that we address and the way that DPI does this is they grade each area,” Sheron said. “Of the 44, we had six partially evident and two unclear and three of the six partially evident just needed a small amount of elaboration.”
Based on the feedback, the district made three amendments to the previously approved plan in order to ensure that the standards and practices were clear and accessible to parents and stakeholders.
Those included the addition of clarifying language and expanded descriptions for both how to access available accelerated learning opportunities as well as course options and guidance, enhanced descriptions for those opportunities and the inclusion of a the full steps in the process for reviewing disagreements, which was inadvertently omitted from the approved plan.
“We got pretty high ratings on this AIG Plan,” superintendent Stephen Gainey said. “Great work by Debbie and everyone involved on this. Tremendous work.”
The full plan can be viewed on the Randolph County School System’s website.
The board was also presented with two grants that were received by the district.
The first grant was a Donors Choose Grant, which was in the amount of $317.16 and was to be used for the purchase of books in preparation for the Battle of the Books competition for students at Providence Grove High School.
The second grant was the Walmart Spark Good Local Grant, which was in the amount of $2,000 and was used to purchase materials required to establish a professional clothing closet at Trinity High School.
The closet helps to remove barriers for students who are required to participate in events such as internship interviews, graduation and presentations and may not have access to professional dress.
The Randolph County Schools Board of Education will next meet June 1.
