The APS Office of Gifted and Talented Education’s Parent University is hosting an event called “Engage: Maximizing your gifted student’s potential” that provides parents an opportunity to select sessions of interest to help deepen their understanding of the unique academic, social and emotional needs of gifted learners. March 20, 2014 6:00 – 8:00 pm Slater […]
At L. O. Kimberly Elementary School, students who raised their grades during the last grading period are recognized through the Bring Up Grades (B.U.G.) Program. A B.U.G. student has also been identified by his or her classroom teacher as one who improved academically and made strides in their work habits, persistence and dedication to assignments. […]
The Atlanta Public Schools District and The Atlanta City Regional Science & Engineering Fair winners have been announced! All participants of both fairs will be honored at an awards ceremony that will be held on February 28, 2014, at Coretta Scott King Young Women’s Leadership Academy. All participating students, parents, and sponsors are encouraged attend. For […]
At the February 20, 2014, meeting of the Georgia State Board of Education, nine APS schools were among 258 high schools awarded Advanced Placement (AP) Teacher Training Grants for the training of AP teachers at the 2014 AP Summer Institutes. The awards amounted to a total of $13,300.00 given to schools. The AP Teacher Training […]
Atlanta Public Schools (APS) will begin accepting applications for general administrative transfers and Georgia Special Needs Scholarship transfers beginning March 8. Georgia’s Public School Choice law allows residents of the City of Atlanta to attend a public school outside of their zoned school if space is available. Those that live outside of the City of […]
Atlanta Public Schools has approved a comprehensive plan allowing students to make up instructional time missed due to inclement weather. A district wide plan has been developed to increase the time and opportunity for students to receive critical instruction lost during the six days of inclement weather. The district’s professional learning day scheduled for March […]
AMERICAN PROMISE will be screened at D.M. Therrell High on Thursday, February 20, 2014 from 5:00-7:30 p.m. This award-winning documentary spans 13 years as Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson, middle-class African-American parents in Brooklyn, N.Y., turn their cameras on their son, Idris, and his best friend, Seun, who make their way through Dalton, one of […]