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A group of educators and community leaders started meeting in 2005 in Decatur to form an organized response to the issue of student performance.

Studies and assessment projects conducted by the Economic Development Corporation, the United Way, The Community Foundation of Decatur/Macon County, the Greater Decatur Chamber of Commerce, the Decatur Board of Education, and others began to focus all attention on improving academic achievement.

The complexity of the problem calls for a systemic, community-wide and sustained approach to achieve improvement. To facilitate this approach the group has organized a community support infrastructure called the Decatur Area Education Coalition.

The Board of Directors of The Community Foundation, recognizing the vital role which giving has played in the history of the county, organized a capital fund drive to support a comprehensive program of community improvement in Decatur that focuses for the next five years on three educational objectives.

These objectives are the heart of the Education Coalition’s plan for action.