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April 30, 2021 Dallas - Paulding schools online English teacher Laura Buffington (foreground) and math teachers Barbara Miller (left) and Angela Haxton teach their students online at Paulding Virtual Academy in Dallas on Friday, April 30, 2021. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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Augusta University President Brooks Keel will soon have the highest total annual compensation of any president in the University System of Georgia. AJC File Photo.
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April 30, 2021 Dallas - Paulding schools online English teacher Laura Buffington (foreground) and math teachers Barbara Miller (left) and Angela Haxton teach their students online at Paulding Virtual Academy in Dallas on Friday, April 30, 2021. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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Augusta University President Brooks Keel will soon have the highest total annual compensation of any president in the University System of Georgia. AJC File Photo.
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Could encouraging the use of bikes and public transit help give kids a more flexible morning schedule? (Steve Schaefer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
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August 26, 2020 Lawrenceville - Deborah Clinkscales, assistant principal, directs students to maintain social distance as students wearing masks arrive to Jackson Elementary School for the first day of school amid the coronavirus outbreak on Wednesday, August 26, 2020. Only kindergartners, first graders and special ed students are coming back, and half the district's students overall have chosen to have in-person instruction this semester. Students are required to wear masks. Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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Senate Bill 293, which was signed into law Monday by Gov. Brian Kemp, spells out how the school systems will divide up funding on property annexed by the city of Decatur.
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Graduating high school seniors in Cherokee County will be allowed up to two guests per graduate at ceremonies later this month in Woodstock, the school district announced. AJC FILE
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Georgia students ACT scores, SAT scores and more information about every school in the state can be found on The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Ultimate Atlanta School Guide.
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New Georgia Tech students with the assistance of their families begin moving in for the fall semester in Georgia Tech campus on Saturday, August 8, 2020. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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Georgia Tech's iconic Tech Tower. The school ranked first in three categories in the closely-watched U.S. News & World Report annual college rankings.
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Atlanta International School seniors Rodrigo Villagomez (L) and George Song show their Instagram account called Futures of AIS 2021 witch lets fellow classmates know what college they've committed to. STEVE SCHAEFER FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
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Jamari Ruffin-Daniels, 8, wrote his first book about how the coronavirus pandemic ruined the fun of school. (Contributed/Nakesha Jackson)
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Fulton County Schools Superintendent Mike Looney announced masks will no longer be required during outside activities starting in May. (ALYSSA POINTER/AJC FILE PHOTO)
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The Robert W. Woodruff Library is a primary location for Atlanta University Center students to study. The colleges and universities in the center announced on April 19, 2021 that they will ERIC STIRGUS/ESTIRGUS@AJC.COM.
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Could encouraging the use of bikes and public transit help give kids a more flexible morning schedule? (Steve Schaefer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
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Augusta University President Brooks Keel will soon have the highest total annual compensation of any president in the University System of Georgia. AJC File Photo.
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Fort Valley State University in Fort Valley, Ga., is a historically black school that began in 1895 as Fort Valley High and Industrial School. The state acquired the school in 1939, and Fort Valley State College was born. (CONTRIBUTED)
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Class is taking place outdoor in the University of Georgia campus in Athens shortly after the start of the fall 2020 semester. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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Education analysts, philanthropists and advocates want schools to be reimagined and reinvented post COVID. (Curtis Compton/ccompton@ajc.com)
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02/10/2021 —Atlanta, Georgia — Georgia Dean of the House of Representatives Rep. Calvin Smyre (D-Columbus), left, and Morehouse School of Medicine President and Dean Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice, right, listen as Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp speaks during a presser at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Wednesday, February 10, 2021. Gov. Kemp and Georgia Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Kathleen Toomey participated in a roundtable discussion at the Morehouse School of Medicine campus.(Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)
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NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 08: Actress LaTanya Richardson Jackson and actor Samuel L. Jackson attend the 68th Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on June 8, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions)
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The University System of Georgia notified the presidents of state public colleges and universities today that 2022 applicants will have to submit ACT or SAT scores.
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Author Kelly Corrigan has some advice for newly minted graduages as they go out in the world: "Wherever you go, there will be people, with stories to share and lessons to teach. And it’s easier to know them than you think. Just ask questions." AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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Marietta High School media specialist Laura Gary-Michel (left) helps Henry Watson connect to his virtual learning class at the Emily Lembeck Learning Center in Marietta on Aug. 5, 2020. The learning center is part of the Marietta City Schools district. (ALYSSA POINTER / ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)
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Atlanta Public Schools will hold two meetings to give the public a chance to provide input on its budget for next school year. (Alyssa Pointer/AJC FILE PHOTO)
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Dr. Debby Pollack (left) talks to Miriam Araya (right), 15, and her mother Betty Kidanu and sister Melina Araya, 11, after Miriam received a first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at Dekalb Pediatric Center on Wednesday, May 12, 2021. More than a thousand patients, most of them 12-15 years old, seized the opportunity to get a shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at the clinic, which is partnering with the city school system to vaccinate students. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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Jackson Elementary School teacher Darlene Willims greets students as they return for in-person learning in Clayton County on April 12. Clayton County was the last metro Atlanta district to bring students back to class for face-to-face instruction. STEVE SCHAEFER FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
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Matan Berg, 16, a sophomore at North Atlanta High School, started a petition urging Atlanta Public Schools to roll back plans to start the high school day earlier next year. He is pictured at his Atlanta home on Tuesday, May 11, 2021. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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Maggie Fehrman has been named as the new superintendent for City Schools of Decatur. Credit: City Schools of Decatur
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Gwinnett County Public Schools will hold in person high school graduations this month. AJC file photo
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Clarkdale Elementary School students near a school bus in Austell on October 5, 2020. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)
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