(From left-right) Gregory Owens, Cleve Warren, president, Essential Capital Finance; Janet Owens, vice president of marketing & communications, United Way of Northeast Florida; and Barbara Darby, president, Florida State College…
By now you probably already know about Atlanta Public Schools’ inaugural Domecoming Football Classic, which is an all-day high school football extravaganza featuring some of the district’s best football programs.…
UPDATE: Check out Tom Dunn’s profile in the AJC! Inspiring doesn’t begin to describe the New York Times profile of King Middle School teacher Tom Dunn. The veteran defender of…
The annual Little Five Points Halloween Parade always seems to give Atlantans a nice head’s up that the ghoulish holiday is coming. And the freaks and geeks to lined Euclid…
Atlanta Public Schools (APS) presents its first-annual Domecoming Football Classic Saturday, Oct. 24, at the Georgia Dome. The first game starts at 11 a.m. with Grady vs. St. Pius, followed…
We continue our look at the APS Teachers of the Year with a mini-profile of the Elementary School Teacher of the Year, Morningside Elementary‘s Rachel Willis. Rachel Willis is a product…
The AJC had a nice article on the Atlanta Board of Education’s winning the CUBE award for board governance in today’s print edition, but not online. Here’s the complete text:…
There’s a great story in the AJC today by Gracie Bonds Staples about how local school systems (including APS) are fighting obesity with innovative strategies. The story includes one of…
The National School Boards Association’s Council of Urban School Boards of Education (CUBE) has awarded the Annual 2009 Award for Urban School Board Excellence to the Atlanta Board of Education. …
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…