The Bibb County School District projects that Appling Middle will be the only school ... at scores and to figure out why students either show progress or did not show progress.

Yet the emails from Distinguished Concerts International New York City kept coming, and eventually the director of the Appling Middle School Honors Choir realized the invitation was serious.

When the chief turnaround officer initially picked Appling Middle for intervention, he passed over another school in the county, Ballard-Hudson Middle School, that by many measures has more ground ...