The U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Education caused a stir with a recent letter to school systems offering guidance on how to protect the rights of transgender students. School systems in Atlanta, ...
This story has been updated. Superintendent David Dude said City Schools of Decatur is no longer seeking to lease the shuttered East Lake Elementary School from Atlanta Public Schools. CSD had been seeking to lease ...
Decatur’s School Board will meet at 7 p.m. on Jan. 5 to discuss “facilities master planning.” There’s no supporting documentation for the board agenda. Last month, Superintendent David Dude said he would call a special ...
The National Weather Service predicts that it will snow Tuesday morning, Feb. 24. So far, there have been no announcements from City Schools of Decatur, Atlanta Public Schools, Fulton County Schools or DeKalb County Schools about weather-related ...
This story has been updated. Somewhere along the way, our country gave up on education. I don’t mean people stopped caring about it. There are people who have made careers out of caring about it. ...
Gov. Nathan Deal believes the state should take control of a local school if consistently comes up short on the state’s College and Career Ready Performance Index. He’s backing a constitutional amendment that would allow for ...
Superintendent Phyllis Edwards knows City Schools of Decatur is running out of room. One of her ideas for creating more space is leasing it from neighboring school districts. Edwards recently told Decaturish that she has ...
Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Meria Carstarphen has sent a letter to Inman Middle School parents informing them that the plans for expanding the school are on hold. One of the reasons is a proposal by residents ...
The state of Georgia ditched the school performance rating system under the federal No Child Left Behind law, known as Adequate Yearly Progress, in favor of a new system. Within that system, City Schools of Decatur ...
Askari Flewellen and Uwezo Flewellen II are brothers attending Jackson High in Atlanta, but they have more in common than a last name. Between the two of them, they’ve spent 500 hours on community service ...