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Angela Tuck

Angela Tuck is the education assignment editor at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The reporters on her team cover K-12 education. They are: Jaime Sarrio, Wayne Washington, Ty Tagami, Nancy Badertscher and Daarel Burnette. She also supervises Michelle Shaw, the reporter who handles news obituaries. Tuck has been a journalist for 34 years, including 23 years at the AJC where she has been a reporter, editor, newsroom recruiter and public editor.

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May 16, 2013 - Atlanta - While at the Morehouse bookstore with his fiance, Tiffany Smith (left), to pick up his graduation gown, Genarlow Wilson picks out some baby clothes for his 2 month old daughter Gabriella Ryan Wilson. As President Obama addresses the Morehouse College Class of 2013 Sunday, Genarlow Wilson will be there to receive his sociology degree. Wilson, now 27, was convicted in 2005 for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old classmate. He was 17 at the time and his sentence drew international headlines. The Ga. Supreme Court overturned it, calling it cruel and unusual. The state legislature also made the law he was convicted of a misdemeanor rather than a felony. He was released from prison in October 2007 and began college in January of 2008. BOB ANDRES / BANDRES@AJC.COM

Genarlow Wilson’s journey from prison to Morehouse

Six years ago, Genarlow Wilson was a national statistic — a young black man behind bars regretting his bad decisions and waiting for another shot at life. Today, Wilson will receive his sociology degree from Morehouse College, where President Barack Obama will deliver the commencement address. “I’ve done a lot ...

  • 9:00 a.m. Saturday, May 18, 2013

Best in Class

Kurt Klinkmueller, a junior at The Center for Advanced Studies at Wheeler High School in Cobb County, scored a 36 Composite score on the ACT. Among ACT tested U.S. high school graduates in the class of 2012, only 781 out of more than 1.66 million students earned a composite score ...

  • 12:00 a.m. Thursday, May 16, 2013

Best in class for April 12

Fulton County Schools has been named a first-place winner in the 19th annual Magna Awards program. Sponsored by the National School Boards Association’s American School Board Journal, the award recognizes districts for programs advancing student learning and encouraging community involvement in schools. Fulton was recognized for restructuring as a charter ...

  • 10:23 a.m. Thursday, April 11, 2013

Best in Class for April 5

JeKayla Claxton is the winner of the S. Truett Scholarship, given to employees of Chick-fil-A. The Lithonia Chick-fil-A team member is a 2012 graduate of DeKalb’s Stephenson High School. She is an international business major at the University of Georgia. JeKayla has worked at the Turner Hill Road restaurant since ...

  • 2:46 p.m. Thursday, April 4, 2013

Best in class for March 29

The Union Grove Middle School chapter of Family, Career and Community Leaders of America recently took part in a leadership conference in Athens where some of the students took top honors. Florence Gaillard, Anna Hearn, Kristen Miller and Cara Wimberly won first in the state and will compete at Nationals ...

  • 4:54 p.m. Thursday, March 28, 2013

Best in Class for March 22

Thirty-eight students from Gwinnett’s Collins Hill High School have been recognized for their high scores on the National German Exam. Students who scored above 85 percent on the exam will be honored at a ceremony at the German Embassy in Atlanta. Several students at school received special recognition. Garrett Helmick ...

  • 10:31 a.m. Thursday, March 21, 2013

Best in Class

Two students from Duluth’s SKA Academy of Art and Design won awards in the 2013 Space Foundation International Student Art Contest. The winners are: Vincent Zheng, grand prize Space Foundation achievement award in the 3rd-5th grade category and Jessica Deng, third place in the pre-kindergarten-2nd grade drawing category. More than ...

  • 4:59 p.m. Thursday, March 14, 2013

Best in Class

Anirudh Udutha, a junior at The Center for Advanced Studies Magnet Program at Cobb’s Wheeler High School, represented Georgia at the 2013 USA National Brain Bee Championship on March 2 -4 at the University of Maryland and placed 12th among 47 students. The Brain Bee is a neuroscience competition for ...

  • 3:47 p.m. Thursday, March 7, 2013

Best in Class for March 1

Sara Dada, a senior at The Center for Advanced Studies Magnet Program at Wheeler High School in Cobb County, has been honored with a state-level Certificate of Excellence from The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards Program. Presented annually by Prudential Financial in partnership with the National Association of Secondary School ...

  • 11:42 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013

Q&A: The DeKalb school board crisis

Q: Why is the DeKalb school system in danger of losing its accreditation? A: The district was placed on probation in December by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Mark Elgart, who heads SACS, said this about the district Thursday during a hearing in front of the state board ...

  • 4:29 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013