Gwinnett saw 610 take retirements in 2012

Gwinnett, the state’s largest school district, saw 610 employees retire in 2012, the school board was told Thursday. The biggest single category of teachers. More than 350 of them left. Teachers had an incentive to leave in 2012. An extra pension benefit that put more money in teachers’ pockets was phased out for 2013 and beyond. Also leaving the school system were: seven principals; 18 assistant principals; 53 paraprofessionals; 50 clerical workers; 38 school nutrition workers; and 16 custodians, according to a report given to the school board.

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The University of Georgia could soon limit the number of foreign workers it employs, a result of the $100,000 fee imposed on some H-1B visas.

Georgia judges deal blow to ICE’s new mandatory detention policy

The ruling is a first-of-its-kind to come out of Georgia’s Middle District.

At the Cobb jail, a new kind of rehabilitation starts at the horse barn

Joshua Arp is one of two Cobb County jail detainees taking part of the sheriff’s office new equine therapy program meant to help him stay out of jail.