Please follow this live blog for updates from today’s Board of Education Special Legislative Meeting. 3:25pm Waiting for BOE members to complete a budget meeting prior to this legislative meeting. Updates coming shortly. 3:46pm Board members are entering the room. 3:58 Meeting has started. Debate taking place about whether to allow speakers who did not […]
Congratulations to our students at Grady High School! The Grady journalist program garnered 10 General Excellence awards, four Achievement Awards and 38 individual awards at the 2012 Georgia Scholastic Press Association Awards Assembly held on Thursday April 26 at the Classic Center on the University of Georgia campus. (Photo by Jason Carter.) Read the entire […]
Special Legislative Meeting NOTICE April 30, 2012 The Atlanta Board of Education will convene a Special Legislative Meeting* ** on Monday, April 30, 2012 at 3:00 pm. Agenda: Report No. 11/12-4314 – Authorization to Modify School Attendance Zone Boundaries (Final Approval) Report No. 11/12-4315 – Authorization to Modify School Revised […]
John Hope Bryant, Founder and CEO of Operation HOPE, surprised students at Washington’s School of Banking Finance and Investment when he announced that the budding entrepreneurs would have an opportunity to participate in a pilot program through which they can compete for professional mentors, financial coaches and start-up money to develop and execute their business ideas. […]
Twenty-two Atlanta Public Schools students have been awarded 2012 Gates Millennium Scholarships – the third highest number of Gates scholarships awarded in the nation this year. A total of only 1,000 students across the nation were awarded these prestigious college scholarships, which can be used to pursue degrees in any undergraduate major at colleges and […]
Springdale Park Elementary School is one of only 78 schools across the nation to be designated a U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon School. The announcement was made earlier this week in Washington, D.C. by U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan. Recognized schools exercise a comprehensive approach to creating “green” environments through reducing environmental […]
APS Photographer Scott King spent time on the field this weekend with North Atlanta High School’s lacrosse team. Click below for a full photo gallery. Grady High School and North Atlanta High School both have competitive girls and boys lacrosse teams that have moved from being club sports to area sports in recent years. Athletic […]
Click below to watch the video! On Friday, April 20, Georgia First Lady Sandra Deal, the wife of Governor Nathan Deal, paid visits to four APS elementary schools and read to Pre-K students in their classrooms as part of her effort to emphasize the importance of literacy, reading and early learning. Pre-K students at Connally Elementary School, Beecher Hills Elementary […]
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