Spirit of music moves Ramtown students
BY TOYNETT HALL Staff Writer
      HOWELL - "Play 'dat pan man," said Melvin Dean, a member of the Spirit Ensemble, as he and five other master percussionists took students from the Ramtown Elementary School on a musical journey to Africa and the Caribbean.
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Kindergarten registration set
      JACKSON - Parents of children who will be 5 years old on or before Oct. 1 will have the opportunity to begin the kindergarten registration process for the 2007-08 school year. "It's hard to believe, but the students who will be registering this year will ultimately become the Class of 2020," Superintendent of Schools Thomas Gialanella said.
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State taking closer look at increase in test scores
BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer
      JACKSON - When annual math or language test scores spike up or down in a particular school, the state Depart-ment of Education wants to know why that happened. Such is the case of McAuliffe Middle School eighth-grade math scores on the 2005-2006 GEPA test, which spiked 18 points higher than the previous year.
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