The state is preparing to set tougher standards for its teaching colleges and newest educators, a move that a new national report suggests cannot come fast enough.
The growth of charter schools in Atlanta could stall unless they’re forced to help pay off the city school system’s old pension debt, an Atlanta Public Schools attorney told the Georgia Supreme Court on Monday.
A lawyer for Atlanta Public Schools told the Georgia Supreme Court today that the school district probably wouldn’t approve new charter schools unless they help pay off old an old pension debt.
The Common Core State Standards have become a hot-button issue in some areas of metro Atlanta. Opponents run the gamut: state lawmakers, conservative groups, tea party members, parents and some school board members.
The debate over Common Core standards — and a recent Cobb County school board decision not to buy textbooks related to those standards — sparked another heated debate among board members Wednesday.
The financially troubled DeKalb County School District could soon be shelling out $1 million as added incentive for some of its employees to show up for work.
The DeKalb County school board gave a preliminary nod to interim Superintendent Michael Thurmond’s first school budget Monday, approving $759 million in general operating expenditures for the fiscal year starting July 1.
Tours of the new Atlanta Public Schools Archives Museum will begin Monday, with exhibits featuring high school yearbooks, a manual school bell and the principal’s counter where the parents of Martin Luther King Jr.
Atlanta’s school board approved a tentative budget late Thursday night that maintains class sizes, furloughs teachers for three days and starts school a few minutes later for middle and high schoolers.
A whistleblower lawsuit claims that the Atlanta school system retaliated against an employee who reported her supervisor paid vendors before work was completed and wrongfully spent federal grant money to pay school principals.
Frustrated Atlanta school board members met Wednesday and called for a bloated central office to start shedding unproductive administrators so that more money can go toward reducing class sizes.
Georgia school systems are bracing for another multimillion-dollar financial hit July 1, when the cost of insuring bus drivers and other traditionally low-paid school workers jumps for a second straight year by $1,800 per person.
The new Falcons stadium moved another step forward, with approval of a design including a retractable roof, plus a wall of glass with a skyline view and a video board that encircles the roof opening.
DeKalb CEO Burrell Ellis has been indicted by a DeKalb grand jury today on charges he illegally pressured contractors into giving him campaign contributions.
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