Business and civic leaders joined Atlanta Public Schools principals today at the Omni Hotel during a kickoff breakfast for this year’s Principal For A Day (PFAD) event, a 10-year partnership between APS and the Metro Atlanta Chamber. Merrill Lynch co-sponsored the event with The Atlanta Partners for Education, an organization formed as a joint effort […]
Students at Charles L. Gideons Elementary School will receive a special delivery on Friday morning, courtesy of Assistance League of Atlanta. The all-volunteer organization will provide enough new pants, polo shirts, jackets and belts to keep 125 students in style. Earlier this month, the organization also donated school clothes, hygiene kits and shoe vouchers for […]
Congratulations to Morris Brandon Elementary, which has been selected by the Georgia Department of Transportation as the “banner” school for International Walk to School Day on October 7. The annual event promotes students taking safe routes to school. Brandon has celebrated this event for several years, says Principal Karen M. Evans, who adds that the […]
Atlanta Public Schools has reopened its doors today, as metro Atlanta deals the the aftermath of massive flooding that caused an estimated $250 million in damage. The district decided to close schools after discovering flooding along bus routes, joining Carroll, Cobb, Douglass, Dekalb, Fulton and other districts. Currently, all school activities are scheduled to resume, […]
More than 1,500 APS high school students will flock to the Atlanta City Fair at Atlanta Metropolitan College this morning to learn more about their post-secondary options. Representatives from more than 125 colleges will be in attendance for this fair, one of 69 statewide sponsored by the Georgia Education Articulation Committee’s Probe College Fair. “I […]
The Hospitality, Tourism and Marketing (HTM) small learning community at Douglass High School is raising the bar. For the 2009-2010 school year Tonya Fulton, HTM teacher and Stephanie Bailey, academy leader of HTM were granted $30,000 from the Michael Jordan Grant Foundation to develop a “HTM Career Laboratory” for students of this SLC. The HTM Laboratory will […]
Marcus Caffey is our new hero. The Grady High School running back rushed for 164 yards, including a fourth-quarter touchdown, as Grady thumped Towers 34-12 on Friday night. That pushed the Knights record to 3-0 on the season. There’s a great re-cap of the game in Saturday’s AJC, including this part from their head coach: […]
Our media marvel Scott C. King just uploaded lots of cool photos of APS-releated events over the past week on our district Web site, showcasing everyone from little students to big-time principals. First up is some awesome middle school football action at Lakewood Stadium. Then there’s the new principals luncheon at the CLL auditorium. (Nice use […]
B.E.S.T. Academy and Burgess-Peterson Academy enjoyed a busy morning today as students, faculty and community partners collaborated on the new National Day of Service in commemoration of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. A camera crew from NBC News was on hand to capture the moment at B.E.S.T. as members of community partner the 100 […]
We were thrilled local media were interested in visiting M. Agnes Jones Elementary while its students watched President Barack Obama’s national speech encouraging students to stay in school, study and work hard. Reporters from the AJC and TV stations dropped in on teacher Corliss Love‘s fifth-grade classroom. (Check out the AJC story here.) M. Agnes […]