More than 200 volunteers from The Home Depot, Peyton Forest Elementary, Atlanta Public Schools, and organizers from the nonprofit organization KaBOOM! will join together Thursday morning to build a state-of-the-art, 2,500 square foot playground, outdoor classrooms and construct artistic murals, in one day. The playground will provide a safe, fun environment for the children in […]
A series of community meetings is scheduled for students, parents and the public to discuss the third wave of the Atlanta Public Schools’ high school transformation initiative. The latest wave of high school transformations involves Mays, North Atlanta and Grady high schools. The district’s high school transformation initiative creates smaller, 21st century learning centers where […]
Rick Martin (above), CNN USA national desk assignment editor challenged seventh-graders at B.E.S.T. Academy to “think about the end game” when it comes to their future plans. Read the press release here.
In conjunction with its Teacher of the Year celebration, the wellness program at F.L. Stanton Elementary held a lupus walk Oct. 9 at Mozley Park on Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive. The school’s Teacher of the Year, Rhea Foster, lost her 24-year-old daughter to lupus in 2004. Many other families have been affected by this little-known […]
APS students experienced living proof that “graduation really achieves dreams” during Project GRAD pep rallies at the South Atlanta Education Complex and The New Schools at Carver this past week. Read the press release here.
UPDATE: Check out photo gallery here. The Atlanta Public Schools celebrated elementary, middle and high schools that achieved at least 70 percent of their performance targets today during the APS Convocation 2009 at the Georgia International Convention Center. A total of 26 APS schools were recognized during today’s event. Specific performance targets for each APS […]
Students from around Atlanta Public Schools took part in Jumpstart’s annual Read for the Record event, with Garden Hills and Towns elementary schools each hosting their own event and Finch and Venetian Hills elementary schools joining in on a larger event at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Atlanta. Mike Beatty, commissioner for the Georgia Department […]
On Thursday, Jumpstart‘s Read for the Record will be a major part of Atlanta Public Schools’ day. There’s the major event planned at the Hyatt Regency (265 Peachtree St. NE, Atlanta GA, 30303), in which guests will read from Eric Carle’s classic, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Guests readers include David Chandley, meteorologist from WSB-TB; Mike […]
Frank L. Stanton Elementary fourth-graders will receive a valuable environment lesson when they hop on Georgia State University’s BioBus on Thursday morning in the school parking lot. Students will learn about “Water in the Environment in a session that will run from 9 a.m.-11 a.m. The water module provides several visual and hands-on activities that teach […]
UPDATE: Visit new photo gallery here. The Rev. Dr. Joseph L. Lowery celebrated his 88th birthday engaged in a spirited discussion on civic engagement along with Judge Penny Brown Reynolds and the senior-high students from Atlanta Public Schools. As part of the district’s ninth annual lecture series at Therrell Educational Complex in his honor, Dr. […]