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Schools can compete for $100,000 fitness centers
All public and private elementary and middle schools in Georgia are eligible to compete in a fitness contest in which three will win $100,000, state-of-the-art fitness centers. The National Foundation for Governors’ Fitness Councils is rewarding schools that use new and unique methods to promote student physical activity and wellness. ...
Dutchtown Elementary receives funding for Chinese Dual Immersion Program
Starting next school year, Henry County’s Dutchtown Elementary School will have a Chinese dual immersion program. The school will have 40 students learning Mandarin Chinese starting in kindergarten. Mandarin Chinese is the largest spoken language in the world, and it is one of four languages identified by the state as ...
Gwinnett school board seeks changes in Georgia education reform contract
The Gwinnett County school system wants to change the terms of a five-year contract it signed with the state, promising improved academic achievement in exchange for flexibility from class size requirements and other state rules. The reason: Things have changed since 2009, when the state’s largest school system agreed to ...
First Lady, others emphasize reading with Suwanee pre-k visit
Georgia First Lady Sandra Deal joins Brooks Coleman, state House Education Committee, R-Duluth, and Bobby Cagle, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning, on Friday. The three will be reading to Georgia’s pre-k students at Discovery Point, 930 Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, Suwanee. The program begins at 9 ...
NASA encourages young women to pursue advanced careers
Girls ages 6-16 had a special visit Thursday from NASA, focusing on possible careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The visit was part of a Dream Big career event hosted by NASA and Girls Inc. of Greater Atlanta. Sparking young women’s interest in STEM-based careers is one of ...
Best in Class
Six outstanding members of the Class of 2013 in Cobb County Schools have been named winners of $2,500 National Achievement Scholarships by the National Merit Scholarship Corp. They are: Adia DeCarla Coley, Lassiter High School; Kristen P. Green and Stephen P. Green, Walton High School; Haley M. Booker-Lauridson, Mina Ezikpe ...
Gwinnett team heads to national contest in personal finance
A team of students from the Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology will represent Georgia in the National Personal Financial Challenge in St. Louis on May 2. Teacher Karen McKnight and her team of four students were among 172 teams that competed in the state online competition for the ...
Hickory Flat Elementary given state OK to become a charter school
Henry County’s Hickory Flat Elementary has almost completed the process of becoming a conversion charter school and will open as Hickory Flat Charter Elementary in the fall. The State Board of Education approved the school’s charter application last week, following years of research, meetings and detailed preparations. This will be ...
Thurmond to address Emory Lavista Parent Council
Michael Thurmond, interim superintendent of DeKalb County Schools, will be guest speaker at the Emory Lavista Parent Council meeting at 9:15 a.m. Wednesday at Coralwood School, 2477 Coralwood Drive, Decatur. Refreshments will be available starting at 8:45 a.m. Thurmond’s topic will be “the state of the system, revisited.”
Gwinnett students’ artwork showcased at this weekend’s Dogwood Festival
Gwinnett students will have 41 pieces of art work on display during this weekend’s annual Dogwood Festival at Piedmont Park in Atlanta. Among the work being showcased will be the winner of “Best of Show,” a work entitled “Laura” by Parkview High 10th grader Camille Pettit. On display during the ...
17 Gwinnett students complete welding program at Maxwell
Seventeen Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS) students are now career ready, having earned their national certification in welding through Maxwell High School of Technology. Maxwell, the school district’s technical education charter school, was named a certified training center for the National Center of Construction Education and Research (NCCER) this year. ...
Charter System Foundation set to meet Thursday
The Charter System Foundation Inc. will hold a meeting of its interim board of directors on Thursday at 2 p.m. The meeting will take place in Room 450 of the state Capitol. Interim directors are: Emily Lembeck, superintendent, Marietta City Schools; Chuck Ledbetter, superintendent, Dublin City Schools; and Allen McCannon, ...
Registration opened for on-line options in Gwinnett
Gwinnett parents who are interested in the online learning options for their students have additional time this spring to register for the 2013-2014 school year. A spring registration period for Gwinnett County Online Campus (GOC) is open and extends to May 3. Gwinnett’s full-time, online learning option will expand next ...
Ex-senator sets up foundation for charter school systems
The sponsor of legislation creating charter school systems has formed a taxpayer-supported foundation to lobby for the program his bill created. Former Senate Education Chairman Dan Weber, a Dunwoody Republican, has been asking public charter systems to contribute $2 per student to fund his Georgia Charter System Foundation. Weber is ...
Event focused on gun-violence prevention planned
The King Center will be site Saturday of a gathering of Atlanta area community leaders who support gun-violence prevention measures, such as the bipartisan legislation introduced by U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania and U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin of Virginia. Their bill requires background checks for commercial gun sales. The ...
Middle school student hels put spotlight on manufacturing, draws honor himself
Dong Ouk “Joseph” Chung, an eighth grader at Gwinnett County’s Hull Middle School in Suwanee, has been recogized by Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle for winning third place in his division in the 2013 Manufacturing Appreciation Week student design contest. The competition was developed by the Technical College System of Georgia ...
Gwinnett wants to amend IE2 contract, plans public hearing
The Gwinnett County school board will hold a public hearing from 6 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. on April 18 on proposals to amend the school system’s IE2 contract. The move to an IE2 system was approved in 2009, with the agreement that the system would meet higher student achievement measures ...
Taking Georgia cue, Obama seeks pre-k expansion
Georgia and other states could get billions of dollars over the next decade to expand pre-kindergarten programs to 4-year-olds from moderate-income families under President Obama’s 2014 budget proposal.The president’s plan, which was released Wednesday, calls for nearly doubling the federal tobacco tax to support a $75 billion investment in pre-kindergarten ...
High-stakes testing needs scrutiny, Barge and others say
John Barge was working in Bartow County Schools when a high school student had a panic attack trying to pass the graduation test and a fourth-grader became so stressed taking the CRCT he drew blood stabbing his arm with a pencil. “I believed well before the Atlanta cheating issue that ...
Gwinnett student violinist declared best in the state
Brandon Hou, an orchestra student at Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology (GSMST), has been named concert master for the Georgia Music Educators Association’s 2013 All-State Orchestra. This designation identifies Brandon as the No. 1 violinist in the state. He competed against 44 of the best high school violinists ...
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