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Mistake delays massive Internet boost for Georgia schools
Education officials have pulled the plug this year on the biggest Internet expansion in Georgia school history, after a mistake nixed any chance to get what they need most to flip the switch: Money. At stake is a chance to bring all 180 school districts up to speed in an ...
Job market wide open for dental hygienists
If you want a health care career that pays well, is in demand and offers flexible scheduling, dental hygiene may give you plenty to smile about. According to the Georgia Department of Labor, dental hygienist employment is projected to grow in Georgia by 2,240 jobs (about 35 percent) from 2010 ...
Co-op students earn while they learn
A chance encounter at a career fair changed the way Amir Maymay mapped out his college experience. That was the first time the Georgia Tech senior learned about co-op programs, which allow students to leave the classroom for a summer or a semester to work full time in their chosen ...
Second act: Retired cop goes back to school
Bruce Bochicchio has set his sights on getting an education and giving himself and his children better options. The road has not been easy for the 47-year-old retired police officer and father of six. There have been more setbacks and obstacles than he cares to relate in the last eight ...
Students learn how to help others resolve differences
Conflict management, in many ways, could be described as the eternal quest to facilitate “Kumbaya” moments, when people put aside their many differences to work and live together in harmony and mutual respect. Unfortunately, life around any campfire is complicated. Conflict appears at home, in schools and in businesses. The ...
In superintendent search, Atlanta schools’ image helps, hurts
The hunt for a transformational leader of Atlanta Public Schools moved forward Thursday, with superintendent candidates being targeted from across the country. Many of the candidates for the difficult job already know about the challenges and strengths of Atlanta’s school system, said Sam Pettway, founding director of BoardWalk Consulting, the ...
Cherokee school board sanctions, fines one of its members
Cherokee County school board member Kelly Marlow has been sanctioned for violating two of the board’s ethics policies and fined $3,600 — the equivalent of half of her $7,200 annual school board salary. She is expected to appeal. During a lengthy hearing Wednesday, the Cherokee board found that Marlow violated ...
Cherokee school board member sanctioned, fined $3,600
Cherokee County school board member Kelly Marlow has been sanctioned for violating two of the board’s ethics policies and fined $3,600 — half of her $7,200 annual school board salary. She is expected to appeal. During a lengthy hearing Wednesday, the Cherokee board found that Marlow violated its code of ...
Reed: Donors to boost APS superintendent pay
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said Wednesday he has raised money from the business community to more than double the salary of the city’s next superintendent to around $600,000. Reed, speaking to students at Morehouse College, said he has a certain type of candidate in mind: someone with a stellar track ...
Mayor Kasim Reed: Money available to double Atlanta school chief’s salary
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said Wednesday he has raised money from the business community to more than double the salary of the city’s next superintendent to around $600,000. Reed, speaking to students at Morehouse College, said he has a certain type of candidate in mind: someone with a stellar track ...
Private money shouldn’t pay for Atlanta superintendent search, board chair says
Atlanta Board of Education Chairman Reuben McDaniel said Wednesday that private benefactors shouldn’t fund the $146,000 search for a new schools superintendent. He said the school district should pay instead. McDaniel’s comments came after The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Tuesday that the school system hasn’t revealed who is underwriting the search, ...
DeKalb County schools superintendent might stay longer
The interim superintendent of schools in DeKalb County may stay in the job after his contract expires in February. Michael Thurmond and the school board chairman confirmed they have been negotiating an extension of his tenure for several weeks. The talks are going well, they say. The district has little ...
Georgia State’s Kell Hall to be torn down
The old yellow building has served as Atlanta’s first parking garage, a saw mill, the city symphony’s rehearsal space and the first permanent building on Georgia State University downtown campus. Now Kell Hall, like so much of the city’s history, has one last mission: the wrecking ball. Georgia State President ...
More Georgia pre-k teachers stick with it
Georgia’s pre-kindergarten teachers are no longer rushing for the exit door now that cuts to the program’s school year — and thus to their salaries — have been rescinded, new data shows. Eighty-one percent of last year’s lead teachers, and 74 percent of assistant teachers are back this year teaching ...
Candidates take aim at Atlanta school board chairman
Challengers running against Atlanta school board Chairman Reuben McDaniel are attacking him for his handling of a racism investigation and his oversight of the troubled city school district. McDaniel faces four opponents in November’s election who claim he overreacted to accusations of racism at North Atlanta High School and mismanaged ...
Moody’s calls court ruling a ‘credit negative’ for Atlanta schools
A Georgia Supreme Court ruling that charter schools are exempt from contributing to Atlanta Public Schools’ pension costs is a “credit negative” for the school system, according to Moody’s credit rating service. Moody’s said in its weekly credit outlook Monday that the ruling means less money is available for APS ...
Radio host Ryan Cameron to deliver keynote remarks in Lowery lecture series
More than 500 Atlanta Public Schools students and guests will hear from radio personality and philanthropist Ryan Cameron on Thursday when he delivers keynote remarks for the 13th Annual Rev. Joseph E. Lowery Lecture Series on Civic Engagement. Cameron is the host of The Ryan Cameron Morning Show on V-103, ...
After four suicides, a school and community begins the healing process
The wooden hearts once planted on the lawn of Milton High are gone now, replaced by a memorial at the school’s entrance, a somber reminder that life doesn’t stretch on forever. Sometimes life stops at age 16. Seven months ago that might have seemed like an impossibility at Milton High ...
Unknown donors pay up in broad search for Atlanta school leader
Atlanta’s search for its next school superintendent will cost five times more than originally planned, and taxpayers aren’t being told who’s paying for it. The high-stakes search for the city school district’s leader will cost about $146,000 for services handled by a partnership between BoardWalk Consulting and Diversified Search, according ...
Ghana president visits Kennesaw State University
Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama addressed students, faculty and staff at Kennesaw State University Monday, the first such visit by a sitting head of state in the school’s 50-year history. Before an audience of 600 at KSU’s Bailey and Family Performance Center, Mahama said economic and political conditions are improving ...
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