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The International Charter Academy of Georgia has about 165 students in a Japanese immersion curriculum.
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A new RAND Corporation survey released this week — “Job-Related Stress Threatens the Teacher Supply: Key Findings from the 2021 State of the U.S. Teacher Survey” — found nearly 1 in 4 teachers may leave the job by the end of the current school year.
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Marietta City Schools' fiscal year 2022 budget totals $117 million and includes raises for employees ranging from 6% to 10.4%. Credit: Marietta City Schools
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The International Charter Academy of Georgia has about 165 students in a Japanese immersion curriculum.
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Academy focuses on Japanese immersion
A new RAND Corporation survey released this week — “Job-Related Stress Threatens the Teacher Supply: Key Findings from the 2021 State of the U.S. Teacher Survey” — found nearly 1 in 4 teachers may leave the job by the end of the current school year.
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New survey: 1 in 4 U.S. teachers may quit
Marietta City Schools' fiscal year 2022 budget totals $117 million and includes raises for employees ranging from 6% to 10.4%. Credit: Marietta City Schools
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Marietta schools budget includes raises for employees
Kennesaw State University Nursing Student Julia Taylor prepares a single does of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for a patient at a drive thru vaccination in the outdoor arena at Jim Miller Park in Marietta on Feb. 3, 2021. Gwinnett County Public Schools and the Gwinnett, Newton, Rockdale Health Departments are partnering to offer COVID-19, meningitis and Tdap vaccines to students and families. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)
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Cobb County School Board members on Thursday gave final approval to the fiscal year 2022 budget. Credit: screenshot of Cobb County Board of Education June 17, 2021, budget hearing.
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Cobb County schools give final approval to budget
Fulton County Schools will ask voters in November to renew a one-cent sales tax to pay for technology and building upgrades. ALYSSA POINTER/AJC FILE PHOTO
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M. Brian Blake, who has been an administrator at several large U.S. universities, is the finalist to become Georgia State University's next president. (Photo courtesy Drexel University)
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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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Clarkdale Elementary School fourth grader Josiyah Cole (center) wears a mask as he waits for the rest of his peers to board the school bus after school was dismissed in Austell on October 5, 2020. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)
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The first students to return to E. Rivers Elementary School came back to the school building on Jan. 25, 2021. Most Atlanta Public Schools students will learn in-person during the 2021-2022 school year. (Alyssa Pointer /AJC FILE PHOTO)
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Kindergarten teacher Shiron Jelks goes over letters and their sounds with her students during the Atlanta Public Schools' Summer Academic Recovery Academy at Cascade Elementary School in Atlanta on Wednesday, June 2, 2021. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)
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Metro Atlanta districts launch summer school programs
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 Aug. 26 2020. Students were required to wear masks. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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Fulton County Schools Superintendent Mike Looney, shown in this file photo from 2019, has high hopes for a $90 million literacy program that will train thousands of teachers and staff in the science of reading. Looney also will undergo hours of professional development as part of the program. CASEY SYKES/AJC FILE PHOTO
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Camp Timber Ridge counselor Amber Anderson participates in a staff training day in Mableton Sunday, May 23, 2021. STEVE SCHAEFER FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
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Gov. Brian Kemp rolled back nearly all of Georgia's coronavirus regulations in an order he signed Friday. The order takes effect Monday. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)
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Atlanta Public Schools elementary teachers will receive a stipend next school year because they are expected to work 30 minutes longer each day. AJC FILE PHOTO
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Scores of audience members refused to wear masks or leave the Gwinnett County Board of Education meeting on May 20, 2021. (ALI MALK / AJC)
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A new RAND Corporation survey released this week — “Job-Related Stress Threatens the Teacher Supply: Key Findings from the 2021 State of the U.S. Teacher Survey” — found nearly 1 in 4 teachers may leave the job by the end of the current school year.
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A 2021 graduate of Forsyth’s Denmark High School, Suba Senthil, standing at the podium, told the school board Tuesday, June 15, 2021, that she found it “a little hard to be different” as a young child in the district. She urged the board to continue with diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. (Image captured from YouTube)
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Folks riled over critical race theory showed up at recent board meetings in Forsyth and Cherokee Counties. Many of those in attendance were older residents without kids now in the local schools.
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A new RAND Corporation survey released this week — “Job-Related Stress Threatens the Teacher Supply: Key Findings from the 2021 State of the U.S. Teacher Survey” — found nearly 1 in 4 teachers may leave the job by the end of the current school year.
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New survey: 1 in 4 U.S. teachers may quit
M. Brian Blake, who has been an administrator at several large U.S. universities, is the finalist to become Georgia State University's next president. (Photo courtesy Drexel University)
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A 2021 graduate of Forsyth’s Denmark High School, Suba Senthil, standing at the podium, told the school board Tuesday, June 15, 2021, that she found it “a little hard to be different” as a young child in the district. She urged the board to continue with diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. (Image captured from YouTube)
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Students walkabout near the intersection of Atlanta Student Movement Boulevard and Chestnut Street SW on the main campus of Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta in this AJC file photo. Clark Atlanta, along with Spelman and Morehouse Colleges are partnering with three investment firms on a $90 million initiative to train more higher investment Black professionals. (Alyssa Pointer/alyssa.pointer@ajc.com)
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In this Wednesday, March 31, 2021 file photo, Cole Smith receives a Moderna variant vaccine shot from clinical research nurse Tigisty Girmay at Emory University's Hope Clinic in Decatur. As of June 2021, scientists have found clues that the world’s leading COVID-19 vaccines offer lasting protection that could diminish the need for frequent booster shots, but they caution that more research is needed and that virus mutations are still a wild card. (AP Photo/Ben Gray, File)
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A Juneteenth Parade makes its way down Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Atlanta. Juneteenth Day -- June 19 -- commemorates the end of slavery. (Photo by Phil Skinner)
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M. Brian Blake, left, is the finalist to become Georgia State University's president. T. Ramon Stuart, right, was named Thursday as Clayton State University's president.
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University of Georgia fourth-year graduate student Amanda Skarlupka starts a bacteria culture for plasmids while working in the labs at the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine building in Athens. in May 2020. The university is making renovations to the building and others on campus as well as beginning new construction. ALYSSA POINTER / ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM
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Rev, Deborah Bennett of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Marietta finish her sign while holding her place in line to speak before a Cobb County of Education board meeting begins. Teachers, parents and local residents gather to voice their opinions on critical race theory and what Cobb County teaching and the reviews initiated by the school board Thursday, June 10, 2021. (Jenni Girtman for The Atlanta Journal Constitution)
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Renovation and expansion work at Midtown High School, formerly known as Grady High School, is just one of the building projects Atlanta Public Schools paid for using a one-cent sales tax that voters approved in 2016. The Atlanta Board of Education will ask voters in November to approve an extension of the sales tax that would pay for additional projects. CHRISTINA MATACOTTA/AJC FILE PHOTO 2020
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Fulton, Atlanta school districts eye sales tax renewal to pay for projects
The Fulton County school board approved a $1.6 billion spending plan for the fiscal year that begins July 1. AJC FILE PHOTO
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$1.6 billion Fulton County Schools budget includes 2% employee raises
Gwinnett County Public Schools had more than 13,000 graduating seniors this year. COURTESY OF GWINNETT COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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Gwinnett school district graduated largest-ever class
The Cobb County School Board will discuss critical race theory at its work session on June 10. The work session starts at 1 p.m. Credit: CHRISTINA MATACOTTA FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
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Cobb County school board to discuss critical race theory
The DeKalb County School District will distribute seven-day meal kits Wednesdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. through July 21 at several schools. Credit: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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DeKalb schools serving free summer meals to children
Gwinnett County Public Schools is changing summer class hours for middle school students after overall enrollment exceeded the district’s expectations. (File photo)
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Gwinnett changes summer class hours for middle school students
The former Crim High School in Atlanta has a new name. VANESSA McCRAY/AJC FILE PHOTO
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