Students at Coretta Scott King Young Women’s Leadership Academy were the center of attention and recipients of several surprises when Good Morning America featured the school for its first-ever “GMA” Yearbook. GMA Anchor Robin Roberts, who was named “Most Likely to Succeed” in high school, was on hand to make the surprise announcement that CSKYWLA […]
Books and babies filled the media center at South Atlanta High School, as seven new and expecting moms gathered for the Mom-to-Mom Brunch on May 16. Sponsored by an APS Office of Early Learning school transition mini grant, the free early literacy program was designed specifically for teen mothers and recent alumni moms under the […]
Seventeen-year-old Sienna Joseph believes in the power of education. The Grady High School senior and St. Lucia native migrated to the United States as a young child and faced some tremendous obstacles. Confronted with issues of homelessness and transience shortly after her family moved from New York to Atlanta, Sienna not only grew up with […]
B.E.S.T. Academy High School senior Kendrell Wilkins, Jr., is the youngest of four children, and on May 21, he will become the first in his family to graduate from high school. “My grandmother, mom, uncles and aunts all had to drop out of school because they had kids, but I decided that the curse will […]