NOTE: There was a ton of activity throughout the district to close out the school year. We shine a light on a number of those events, initiatives and accomplishments in a series of Talk Ups titled “Finishing APStrong.” Out of the hundreds of Atlanta Public Schools graduates who walked across the stage at the Georgia […]
Ten Atlanta Public Schools are awarded $5,000 grants from The Laura Bush Foundation for America’s Libraries. The Foundation announced that 212 school libraries are receiving $1,060,000 in grants to expand, update and diversify the schools’ library book collections. The grant application process is administered by The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region with guidance […]
Name: Adrienne Finley Grade: 2nd Grade School: West Manor Elementary Adrienne Finley is a gifted 2nd grade student from West Manor Elementary. Adrienne is always willing to go above and beyond in her daily activities. She takes pride in earning A’s on her schoolwork and helping others. In fact, she placed third amongst the school […]
The Forrest Hill Academy debate team competed in its third tournament this year on Feb. 12 at Tri-Cities High School. This is the first tournament for the students this semester since the students last semester all transitioned. For their first tournament, these students did a phenomenal job and won many accolades. The following students have […]
As the head of Forrest Hill Academy, Tricia Rock (pictured at right, with student) is a principal whose job it is to get her students out of her school even sooner than usual. And by measurable data, she’s getting really good and getting her students out – and back into the “home” schools that sent […]
After the earthquake in Haiti, the students in the Current Issues class at Forrest Hill Academy watched clips from CNN and were moved almost to the point of tears at the devastation that they saw. Once they took everything in, the students of Forrest Hill Academy decided to raise money for Haitian relief by organizing […]