Thank you for following our live blog of today’s Special Legislative Meeting for Atlanta Public Schools. View today’s agenda here: http://www.boarddocs.com/ga/aps/Board.nsf/Public REFRESH your browser often for updates. The live blog will begin at 3:00 p.m. Superintendent Davis: The budget reflects the removal of an $8M removal from the Beltline and the addition of $6M from the tax […]
July 1, 2013 BOARD MEETING NOTICE 2:00 PM: COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE* Board Work Session Larry Hoskins, Deputy Superintendent Of Operations SPLOST IV Update Chuck Burbridge, Chief Financial Officer Financial Forecast Stakeholders are welcome to provide comments at the beginning of the Committee of the Whole meeting on any item on the […]
On June 24, 2013 Atlanta Public Schools announced the selection of Blackboard Learn™ as its first district-wide learning management system (LMS) after a nine-month evaluation of leading commercial and open-source platforms. The district’s Atlanta Virtual Academy (AVA) will use Blackboard Learn to rapidly expand online classes offered to students and to align all class content with […]
Justin Cucchi, a rising sophomore at Grady High School, is one of 15 students from the United States recently selected to participate in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Ocean for Life program at the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary from June 22 – July 4, 2013. Ocean for Life is an educational marine science […]
Maynard Jackson High School Principal Stephanie Johnson has successfully launched Jackson’s “Mission Possible: Summer Opportunity” initiative, which has landed almost 500 summer jobs and internships for her students. Johnson, who arrived at Jackson in November 2012, began searching for summer jobs opportunities after hearing a student comment that during the summer, since students don’t have […]
Parents, students, employees and community members can help recruit the next Atlanta Public Schools (APS) superintendent. The APS superintendent search committee is providing two opportunities for stakeholders to weigh-in on what the district needs, and should look for in the next APS leader. The APS superintendent survey solicits opinions about the most important skills and […]
MEETING NOTICE BUDGET COMMISSION For the purpose of reviewing the Atlanta Public Schools Tentative Budget for FY2014, the Atlanta Board of Education Budget Commission will convene on: TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 2013 AT 3:30 PM Location CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP Auditorium 130 TRINITY AVE ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303
Atlanta Public Schools is hosting some of its summer school programs at Jean Childs Young Middle School this month. Until the end of the session on June 28th, the summer academy will serve four middle schools in Atlanta Public Schools, including Young, Bunche, Kennedy, and Brown Middle Schools. The site will also house an enrichment program […]
Atlanta Public Schools (APS) kicked off its summer pilot of the Atlanta Virtual Academy (AVA) on Friday, June 14th. AVA provides online learning opportunities for APS students. Over 100 students are enrolled in the current summer session that runs through July 26th. “The first few days have been very exciting,” said Doryiane Gunter, APS Program Manager for Virtual […]