
State law allows the Accountability and Implementation Board to have up to 15 full-time positions. It has staffed six.

Blueprint summaries note local schools still trying to figure out teacher shortage, implement literacy plans.

If Blueprint plans are not approved this month, local school officials have until Oct. 1 to submit them.

AIB board chair Isiah “Ike” Leggett called the miscommunication with state Department of Education an “unforced error.”

The board received almost 445 written pieces of correspondence from students, parents, advocates and education officials.