Crim Open Campus High School hosted a March Madness event that offered valuable workshops for male students. The guest speakers presented topics such as project manhood, social etiquette, healthy peer relationships, healthcare, and music production. The students at Crim were inspired by the respectable, successful men from the community who focused on developing positive characteristics […]
March 29, 2013 Dear Students, Parents, Employees and Partners of APS: Today, the Fulton County District Attorney’s (DA) Office announced indictments against 35 former employees of Atlanta Public Schools (APS). The former employees are accused of wrongdoing in connection with the administration of the Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT) in 2009 and, in some cases, previous […]
The School of Law and Social Justice at South Atlanta (LSJ) holds Senior Defenses each year for all 12th grade students. The purpose of the Senior Project is to engage students in the research process and allow them to present their findings in front of a panel of educators. LSJ students focus on a social […]
Atlanta Public Schools is proud to celebrate the participants in the 2013 Georgia Educational Technology Fair (GaETF). The state technology fair was sponsored by the Georgia Educational Technology Consortium, Inc. and held in Macon, Georgia on March 9, 2013. After months of rigorous preparation and a first place winning project at the APS Technology Fair, the […]
The winners of the 2013 annual African-American Trivia Bowl at Carver Early College are the freshman class. The bowl is held every year to assess knowledge that students possess of African-American History. It is also used to increase students’ general knowledge of African-American History. Moderator Dr. Thomas Gosha asked questions about African-American achievement in disciplines such as […]
2:00 PM: COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE* Board Work Session Work Session Presentations: Chuck Burbridge, Chief Financial Officer Financial Forecast & Summary of Budget Commission Meeting Stakeholders are welcome to provide comments at the beginning of the Committee of the Whole meeting on any item on the agenda. In order to provide comments during the […]
The Inman GEMS Club has received the 2013 Educational Partnership Award offered through the Georgia Tech Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL). The Educational Partnership Award is an annual Georgia Tech award of $7,500 that recognizes genuine and substantial partnerships between the faculty and students of Georgia Tech and the K-12 community. […]
On March 19, Mrs. Sylvia Reed, Mayor Kasim Reed’s mother, read to pre-k and kindergarten students at Burgess-Peterson Academy in recognition of Governor Nathan Deal’s “Georgia Reads Aloud Day.” The children welcomed Mrs. Reed with a special song and presented her biography. Before Mrs. Reed began to read aloud, she interacted with the students and […]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I7vjQa_lyE%5D Visiting the White House is a momentous occasion for any student, but for Coretta Scott King 7th grader Percie Thompson, having the President of the United States toss you the championship soccer ball – well that’s historical! (Watch beginning at the 5:30 mark of the video above). On Tuesday, March 26, 2013, America SCORES […]
On March 8th and 9th, thirty seven young ladies from W.L. Parks Middle School had the opportunity to travel to the state of North Carolina to visit college campuses They visited Queens University, Johnson C. Smith University, Livingstone College and the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. The students visited to promote college and career […]