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Students can do only so much about the college admissions process, but they can control what's in their college essay. (Shutterstock image)
Aiming for college? Being smart is valued. Being decent is impressive.
A student at Austin Road Middle School in Henry County faces a state Department of Education hearing Tuesday, Dec. 18 to appeal her six-month expulsion from school based on an incident on a school bus. Her lawyer contends that she was bullied and coerced into exposed her breast while the boys involved received only three days of in-school suspension. AJC file photo
Henry County school chief: An unthinkable crisis. An undaunted community
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As schools resume, so do parent fears about COVID-19
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Students can do only so much about the college admissions process, but they can control what's in their college essay. (Shutterstock image)
Aiming for college? Being smart is valued. Being decent is impressive.
A student at Austin Road Middle School in Henry County faces a state Department of Education hearing Tuesday, Dec. 18 to appeal her six-month expulsion from school based on an incident on a school bus. Her lawyer contends that she was bullied and coerced into exposed her breast while the boys involved received only three days of in-school suspension. AJC file photo
Henry County school chief: An unthinkable crisis. An undaunted community
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As schools resume, so do parent fears about COVID-19
Amid the coronavirus outbreak, Erin Hicks secures the mask of her daughter Addie, a kindergartner, as father Eddie Hicks looks on the first day of school at Jackson Elementary School in Lawrenceville on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020. For the upcoming school year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now says staff and students should return to schools in masks, even if they are vaccinated against COVID-19. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
CDC now sides with pediatricians: Everybody should mask up in schools
Parents and their children line along 10th Street N.E. near Piedmont Park on Sunday, December 6, 2020, during a rally calling for the safe, immediate opening of Atlanta and DeKalb County schools. (Steve Schaefer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Opinion: If we’re guided by facts, not fears, schools should open and stay open
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)
With gags on discussing racism, can educators still do their jobs?
Protesters outside of the Cobb County School District office show their opposition to masking children in Cobb County schools for the upcoming school year on Thursday, May 20, 2021, in Marietta, Georgia . Many community members waited in line to speak at the school board meeting to voice their support for unmasking. CHRISTINA MATACOTTA FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
Masks: Science on one side. Parents on other.
Students rally for fairer funding of charter schools during National School Choice Week.
Opinion: Provision in federal spending bill jeopardizes charter school funding
Local school boards around the country are increasingly becoming cauldrons of anger and political division, boiling with disputes over such issues as COVID-19 mask rules. (Hunter D'Antuono/Flathead Beacon via AP)
Will schools listen to pediatricians or anti-maskers?
When schools reopen, the American Academy of Pediatrics wants to see masks on all students over the age of 2. Dreamstime/TNS
America’s pediatricians: All students should wear masks this fall
In new guidance issued today, the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said students and teachers who are vaccinated don’t need to wear masks in schools in the fall.. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images/TNS)
CDC says no masks for vaccinated students, teachers. What will parents, school staff say?
A man holds up a sign during a rally against "critical race theory" (CRT) being taught in schools at the Loudoun County Government center in Leesburg, Va., on June 12, 2021. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)
Professor: Banning critical race theory would keep me from teaching Supreme Court rulings
Across the country, school systems are planning for what's next as they try to readjust after the pandemic. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/TNS)
How do schools go from recovery to reinvention in fall?
(Left to right) Scott Donahue, Dr. Jared Hill, a woman who wished not to be named, Cathy Jackson and a man who wished not to be named gather outside of the Cobb County School District office to show their opposition to masking children in Cobb County schools for the upcoming school year on Thursday, May 20, 2021, in Marietta. Many community members waited in line to speak at the school board meeting to voice their support for unmasking. (Christina Matacotta for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Opinion: To mask or not to mask: Why’s that even a question in schools?
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