WEEKLY SPORTS SCHEDULE Date Teams Time Location Varsity Football 2-Nov Dunwoody vs. Douglass 7:00PM Grady Stadium 3-Nov Miller Grove @ Carver 5:30PM Grady Stadium 3-Nov Chamblee @ Mays 8:00PM Grady Stadium 4-Nov Towers @ N. Atlanta 5:30PM Grady Stadium 5-Nov Washington @ Cedar Grove 7:30PM N. DeKalb Stadium 4-Nov Columbia @ Grady 8:00PM Grady Stadium […]
by Tamara Irving, North Atlanta High School Tamara Irving, North Atlanta High School Center for the Arts Dance Director and Velma Page, Choral Director took 2 students to perform for the Council on Aging, Inc. 33rd annual luncheon. The Council on Aging director’s task was to expose the elderly to youth and decrease isolation; what […]
The Georgia Music Educator’s Statewide Elementary Honor Chorus was held the weekend of October 28th in Jonesboro, Georgia. Students from Atlanta Public School’s LP Miles Elementary and Springdale Park Elementary represented APS among almost 500 of the best elementary chorus members across the state of Georgia. The Georgia Music Educators Association Statewide Elementary Honor Chorus […]
The Community Programs Director of Atlanta Ballet, Carla Cuba, visited North Atlanta High School on October 5, 2011 to award five scholarships to Center for the Arts dance students, Endiya Bivins, Andre Goddard, Ameera Hill, Danielle Jackson and Sylvia Mensah. The scholarship will allow the Modern III and IV students access to unlimited free classes […]
The Atlanta Partners for Education will host the 2011 Business-School Partnership Awards Luncheon at Philips Arena on Monday, October 24th, from noon to 1:30 p.m. Atlanta Partners For Education (APFE), a joint venture between the Metro Atlanta Chamber and Atlanta Public Schools, continues to grow and create opportunities for community involvement aimed at improving academic […]
ATLANTA – Jasmine Davis, a senior at Frederick Douglass High School, has been named to State School Superintendent Dr. John D. Barge’s 2011-12 Student Advisory Council. Davis is among fifty students from across the state appointed to the council, scheduled to meet twice throughout the school year to advise Dr. Barge and the Georgia Department of […]
ATLANTA – Elisha R. Gray, a special education teacher at Maynard Holbrook Jackson High School, was named APS Teacher of the Year for 2011-12, during a special awards ceremony this evening at South Atlanta High School. As a teacher of students with significant cognitive disabilities, Ms. Gray learns daily from her students what it means […]
This summer Outward Bound Atlanta announced the second annual recipient of the John Webster 4 Pillars Scholarship. This scholarship recognizes one student in Atlanta Public Schools who embodies the Four Pillars of Outward Bound; physical fitness, craftsmanship, self-reliance, and compassion. Michael Johnson, a Senior from Carver Early College received the scholarship this year, giving him […]
For the second time in two weeks, the Strong4Life movement made a huge splash at an Atlanta Public school when team members delivered music, prizes, games—and most importantly, the message of ending childhood obesity in Georgia —to students at Dunbar Elementary School last week. With over 1 million of the state’s children categorized as overweight […]
ATLANTA – Coretta Scott King Young Women’s Leadership Academy students are set to make their second attempt to attend dedication ceremonies for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, scheduled for Sunday, October 16 in Washington, D.C.. The first trip was cancelled earlier this year due to a hurricane that forced postponement of the ceremonies. […]