Did you know that Atlanta Public Schools has a limited number of lottery funded pre-kindergarten slots available for the 2009-2010 school year? Slots are still available at Burgess-Peterson, Dunbar, Grove Park, Humphries, Hutchinson, Kennedy, Toomer, Usher and White elementary schools. In addition, a new Pre-K classroom with 20 slots has been added to Continental Colony […]
It’s become a habit of Travis Payne, APS alumnus and famed former choreographer to the late Michael Jackson, to return to not only Atlanta but his educational roots. But the timing on this occasion could not have been more bittersweet. Payne took time out to visit two elementary schools today as he continued to celebrate […]
Fifty-eight Atlanta Public Schools were named 2009 Georgia Title I Distinguished Schools by Georgia State Superintendent Kathy Cox during the State Board of Education Meeting on Wednesday. Title I Distinguished Schools recognized for achieving adequate yearly progress (AYP) for three consecutive years are awarded a certificate, while those making AYP four or more years receive […]
UPDATE: Vincent Martinez has passed along the amazing news that Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) has offered to host Grady’s annual “Doggies on the Catwalk” event, in GPB’s Midtown studios, at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 15, 2010. On top of that, GPB plans to feature the Grady fashion program’s top designers in an hour-long documentary leading […]
LaToria Dixon, a senior at APS’ Frederick Douglass High School, has been selected to serve on State Superintendent of Schools Kathy Cox’s 2009-2010 Student Advisory Council. The council meets three times throughout the school year to advise Superintendent Cox on how state policies impact the classroom. Council members also meet to discuss education-related issues and […]
As the Michael Jackson movie This Is It, taken from the rehearsals for the late pop star’s planned comeback shows, hit the big screen last weekend, Atlanta Public Schools can be proud of one of its alumni playing a key role in the movie. Choreographer Travis Payne, a 1989 graduate of Northside (now North Atlanta) […]
Students from around Atlanta Public Schools and partners from both Emory University and Nanjing University came together as part of the Confucius Institute‘s 2009 Mid-Autumn Festival held Thursday at the Atlanta Confucius Institute, which is housed at Coan Middle. Performers ranged from Coan and the four other APS participating schools: Toomer Elementary and Carver School of the Arts, […]
Atlanta Public Schools has won the Meritorious Budget Award from the Association of School Business Officials International (ASBO) for its 2009-2010 annual budget. Founded in 1910, ASBO International has nearly 6,000 school business management professionals as members. The association provides programs and services to promote the highest standards of school business management practices, professional growth, and […]
GE employees have been working with Maynard H. Jackson High School for more than 20 years. The GE/Jackson High School Mentoring Program is in its third year of activity and the program kick-off was held last month. The GE Mentoring Program is a critical component of the positive impact GE has on the students at […]
Nineteen members of the Kennedy Middle School Builders Club spent nearly three hours pulling weeds, collecting organic matter for compost and laying mulch in the 1-acre community garden at Atlanta Good Shepherd Community Church on Thursday morning. (Check out an AJC feature on the garden here.) The students were greeted by Pastor Richard Bright, who […]