Bonnie Stewart Holliday was named Thursday by Gov. Nathan Deal to succeed Kathleen Mathers as executive director of the Governor's Office of Student Achievement. The office is best known for the CRCT erasure analysis that sparked CRCT cheating investigations in Atlanta and Dougherty County school systems. Holliday has worked previously with the state Office of Planning and Budget and the Georgia Charter Schools Commission. She also has prior experience with the Office of Student Achievement as a planning and policy development specialist and as a school teacher. Mathers is leaving state government to tend to her growing family, said Stephanie Mayfield, a Deal spokeswoman. NANCY BADERETSCHER
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The number of students attending the University of Georgia increased slightly this year, resulting in the second highest enrollment in the school's history.
UGA is teaching 34,816 students, an increase of .4 percent or 139 students from last fall. The enrollment record was set in 2009 with 34,885 students.
The increase was driven by growth among undergraduates. UGA's graduate enrollment dropped by 8.3 percent, or 589 students, to 6,489. Graduate enrollment has dropped across the country. LAURA DIAMOND
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has awarded a two-year, $1.8 million grant to four Atlanta institutions to spur the development of medical devices for special needs children.
The grant recipients include Georgia Tech, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University and Saint Joseph’s Translational Research Institute. The money will launch the new Atlanta Pediatric Device Consortium, which will provide help with engineering design, prototype development, pre-clinical and clinical studies and commercialization for novel pediatric medical devices. MISTY WILLIAMS
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