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A DeKalb parent says the school board is directing millions of additional dollars to central office expenditures, including additional staff for finance, human resources and IT, instead of to students and classrooms.

Opinion: DeKalb’s new budget shortchanges students, classrooms
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A longtime Georgia educator says there is a lack of accountability for everyone in classrooms today except teachers.

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Opinion: No accountability for Georgia students, no autonomy for teachers
The end goal after high school shouldn’t be a college diploma for every student, but training and skills that enable every student to earn a livable wage, says Stephen Pruitt of the Southern Regional Education Board in Atlanta. (AJC file photo)

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Opinion: Education and training after high school are keys to recovery
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A DeKalb parent says the school board is directing millions of additional dollars to central office expenditures, including additional staff for finance, human resources and IT, instead of to students and classrooms.

Opinion: DeKalb’s new budget shortchanges students, classrooms
6h ago
A longtime Georgia educator says there is a lack of accountability for everyone in classrooms today except teachers.

Credit: maroke

Opinion: No accountability for Georgia students, no autonomy for teachers
The end goal after high school shouldn’t be a college diploma for every student, but training and skills that enable every student to earn a livable wage, says Stephen Pruitt of the Southern Regional Education Board in Atlanta. (AJC file photo)

Credit: AJC file

Opinion: Education and training after high school are keys to recovery
A billboard along I-95 in Hollywood, Florida, on May 26, 2022, is part of an 80-billboard campaign to combat Florida's new "Parental Rights in Education" law, labeled "Don't say gay" by critics. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun Sentinel/TNS)

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Georgia teen: School should be safe haven for students to say and be gay
FILE - Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, who competed for the University of Pennsylvania, speaks to her coach after winning the 500-meter freestyle during a meet with Harvard on Jan. 22, 2022, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds, File)

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Education chief to trans students: Biden administration ‘has your back’
“I’m a Georgia Voter” stickers on the table at a metro Atlanta polling location for the Georgia primary runoff elections on Tuesday. Voters in Cherokee and Coweta counties rebuffed school board candidates who contended schools were teaching critical race theory.

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Opinion: Voter faith in local schools won over outside influence
The District 5 and District 6 Republican school board runoffs in Cherokee County today will tell whether voters bought into a campaign to portray Cherokee, one of the most conservative counties in Georgia, as a district careening into a liberal abyss. (AJC file photo)

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Opinion: Will Cherokee voters validate or reject political manipulation?
Participants hold signs during a protest to urge a stop of standardized testing during the COVID-19 pandemic, at Liberty Plaza in Atlanta on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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New Georgia DOE report examines roots of teacher burnout
Ibram X. Kendi has two new books, “How To Raise An Antiracist,” and a children’s picture book, “Goodnight Racism.” (Courtesy of Stephen Voss)

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Ibram X. Kendi: We are in a pitched battle to create anti-racist society
FILE — Mourners visit a memorial on May 24, 2022, near the Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, N.Y., where 10 people were killed in a white supremacist shooting rampage on May 14. The man accused of carrying out a racist massacre that killed 10 Black residents at a Buffalo supermarket was arraigned in an Erie County courtroom on Thursday, June 2, on more than two dozen charges, including murder and domestic terrorism motivated by hate — believed to be the first time that such a law has been leveled against a defendant in New York. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)

Morehouse president: We cannot be silent on gun violence or its causes
Gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams speaks during the Georgia School Board Association summer conference in Savannah on June 11, 2022. (AJC Photo/Stephen B. Morton)

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Abrams vows $50,000 base pay for teachers. Will that sway educator votes?
Many teachers consider 2021-2022 the most challenging year of their careers. (Sergio Flores/The New York Times)

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