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New year begins for students in year-round Atlanta schools
Summer break is over for Atlanta elementary students enrolled in three year-round schools, which start Monday.
Boyd, Centennial Place and Hutchinson elementary schools are resuming classes after last school year ended June 3.
The year-round school calendar, launched in Atlanta in 1999, is intended to help students retain more of what they learned in the previous year.
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Mark Niesse is an enterprise reporter and covers elections and Georgia government for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and is considered an expert on elections and voting. Before joining the AJC, he worked for The Associated Press in Atlanta, Honolulu and Montgomery, Alabama. He also reported for The Daily Report and The Santiago Times in Chile.
