On August 20th, APS celebrated the Junior Achievement’s Chick-fil-A Foundation Discovery Center at their grand opening ceremony. Jacob Croskey from Coan, Angel Crawford from Coretta Scott King, and Taj West from Long Middle represented APS at this event by mingling with top executives while volunteering at the Chick-fil-A store. APS is excited to enhance financial literacy and career […]
November 1, 2011 Dear Students, Parents, Employees and Friends of Atlanta Public Schools, I have just returned from the Council of the Great City Schools (CGCS) Annual Fall Conference in Boston, where Atlanta Board of Education Chair Brenda J. Muhammad and I conducted a panel discussion entitled, “The Atlanta Cheating Scandal: What’s next—How APS dealt […]
UPDATE: Watch photo gallery here. You would be hard-pressed to find an Atlanta Public Schools student, teacher, administrator or board member who wasn’t moved and inspired by the double-barreled blast of inspiration they enjoyed on Monday morning. After enjoying a rousing speech by the Rev. Joseph E. Lowery at the lecture series that bears his […]
UPDATE: View photo gallery here. Watch video here. The second annual Neighborhood Celebration provided Atlanta Public Schools to showcase the schools in the southeast Atlanta neighborhoods that feed into host school Maynard H. Jackson High School, on a gorgeous Saturday afternoon. The school halls were filled with representatives from the participating schools as well […]
Students from King Middle School gathered in the auditorium Thursday for a momentous assembly to honor the school’s namesake: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Co-organized by Bevin Carpenter of Communities In Schools (CIS) of Atlanta, the metro area’s leading dropout-prevention organization, the event was designed to educate students, parents and school staff about the importance […]