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Alpharetta Elementary students put focus on famous figures in history
Fourth and fifth graders at Alpharetta Elementary School hosted what they hope will be their first annual Living Wax Museum last week. Students chose an important historical figure that they learned about during the school year. Students were expected to research, write and memorize a one- to two-minute speech about ...
15 Alpharetta Elementary students participapte in Special Olympics Summer State Games
Fifteen athletes from Alpharetta Elementary School in the Special Olympics Summer State Games at Emory University last weekend. There were smiles all around. Student athletes from the north Fulton school competed in track and field events. Athletes ran in a variety of dashes and the softball throw. Participating were: Jacob ...
5 Gwinnett students claiming $2,500 scholarships
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) has announced that five Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS) seniors made this year’s National Merit Scholars list, with each earning a scholarship for $2,500. The National Merit Scholars are part of a group of distinguished students nationwide judged to have the strongest combination of ...
Leadership breakfast focuses on education
Tuesday is the deadline to register to hear Sajan George discuss the future of education at the Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s leadership breakfast. The breakfast is set for 8 a.m. Thursday at The Georgian Club, 100 Galleria Parkway, Suite 1700, Atlanta 30339. George is CEO and founder of Matchbook Learning, ...
Students launch balloons and see returns
Balloons were launched by students at Morrow Middle School as part of an Earth Day Project and classroom studies on wind and the atmosphere. Sixth grade student Julie Nguyen released her helium balloon with high hopes the balloon and an attached message would travel far and be mailed back to ...
More preK students to benefit from summer school
Georgia this year is doubling the number of very young children it will have in summer school — hoping to get them on track for kindergarten. About 2,000 of the state’s 4- and 5-year-olds — half from metro Atlanta — will be participating in an abbreviated version of the state’s ...
Gwinnett schools new budget
Gwinnett, the state’s largest school district, won’t be furloughing employees or increasing class sizes under a 2014 budget unanimously approved Thursday night by the school board. Total spending for the district was set at $1.76 billion, with about $1.3 billion earmarked for day-to-day operations. The district has designated $6.2 million ...
The Cottage School hosts graduation
The Cottage School will host graduation ceremonies at 11 a.m. on May 24. The ceremonies will be in the school’s Cougar Center. Eighteen seniors will be graduating, including 12 HOPE scholars. Bob Hagan, president of the school’s board of directors, will present the diplomas. The Cottage School is a private ...
Braves Fan Club recognizes top high school baseball players
The top high school baseball players in metro Atlanta will be honored at the Braves 400 Fan Club’s Annual High School All-Star Luncheon on May 30 at Turner Field’s 755 Club. The Braves 400 Fan Club supports baseball at all levels in the community. Many of the award winners at ...
Providence Christian names valedictorian, salutatorian
Providence Christian Academy in Lilburn has announced that, for the Class of 2013, Amanda Piehler is the valedictorian and Brittany Dubay is salutatorian. The school has 94 graduates this year, including 58 who will graduate with honors. The school’s graduation ceremony is set for 10 a.m. May 25 at Mount ...
Shiloh Middle earns state kudos
Gwinnett County’s Shiloh Middle School was recognized last week with the Georgia Department of Education’s Family-Friendly Partnership School Award. It is one of four schools receiving the honor this school year. Also recognized were schools in the city of Gainesville and Glynn and Cherokee counties. Shiloh Middle was lauded for ...
Clayton schools want to forge bond between elected leaders, police, parents and students
Clayton County police officers, mayors and city councilmembers are encouraged to stop by a local public school for a free breakfast or lunch this month. The “breakfast and lunch with a cop” program started Monday and runs through May 23, according to interim superintendent Luvenia Jackson. The program is designed ...
How school grading system works
Georgia’s new College and Career Ready Performance Index replaces the Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) designation, which was established under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. That system was often criticized because it only rated schools as “pass or fail” and relied heavily upon standardized test scores. The College and ...
Georgia’s new school-grading system: Familiar conclusions, fresh challenges
Georgia’s new system for grading schools is reaching the same general conclusions as the often-derided pass/fail federal system it’s replacing. The vast majority of schools that met the federal benchmark of success scored well by the state’s new measure. And those that failed largely continued to perform poorly, an analysis ...
Eagle’s Landing teacher wins online contest, $500, ice cream all around
Eagle’s Landing Middle School teacher Heather MacKenzie Thompson has been voted the Star Choice Award Teacher in an online contest sponsored by Star94 Radio and Georgia United Credit Union. Nine other teachers were vying for the honor. MacKenzie, an 8th grade language arts and social studies teacher, receives $500 and ...
President’s senior advisor to give Clark Atlanta commencement address
Valerie B. Jarrett, senior advisor to President Barack Obama, head of the Offices of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs and chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls, will be the commencement speaker at Clark Atlanta University, the university announced Friday. The Class of 2013’s commencement exercises are ...
Service improved for child care searches
The Atlanta-based non-profit Quality Care for Children (QCC) hopes to make it even easier for families to source the highest quality child care in their area by relaunching 877-ALL-GA-KIDS (877-255-4254) with new and better functionality. QCC helped about 25,000 families search and choose child care last year, and understands what ...
Wimberly to be CAU baccalaureate speaker
Clark Atlanta University announced Monday that Edward P. Wimberly, acting president of the Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC) in Atlanta, will deliver the university’s baccalaureate address. The address is set for 5 p.m. May 19 in the Vivian Henderson Center’s Leonidas Epps Gymnasium at the corner of Vine Street and Atlanta ...
12 Gwinnett students named Gates Millennium Scholars
Gwinnett County Public Schools has its largest class of Gates Millennium Scholars this year, with 12 members of the Class of 2013 receiving college tuition for their entire college careers. Seniors from Central Gwinnett, Meadowcreek, Mill Creek, Mountain View, North Gwinnett and Shiloh high schools are receiving the scholarships for ...
School’s career day gives students view of opportunities
Potential careers were showcased to students in grades 3-5 at River Eves Elementary as part of the school’s 6th annual Career Day. Students at the Roswell school heard from 24 speakers — from local business owners to parent professionals — on potential careers in science and the arts. The day’s ...
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