School gets "reading zone" makeover by the Hawks

The Atlanta Hawks have chosen a school for students with disciplinary histories for an improvement project to encourage reading.

The DeKalb Alternative School, which serves fourth through 12th graders expelled from their home schools, got a reading area Thursday as a result of being picked for the team's "Reading Zone Makeover."

The $10,000 project will encourage 280 students to read 25 books a year.

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Ty Tagami is a staff writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Since joining the newspaper in 2002, he has written about everything from hurricanes to homelessness. He has deep experience covering local government and education, and can often be found under the Gold Dome when lawmakers meet or in a school somewhere in the state.

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