Start of school around the corner

Those easy summer morning commutes will end in coming weeks as school buses return to the roads.

Children start back in the City Schools of Decatur Aug. 1. The relatively small school system will have a minor effect on traffic compared with the DeKalb County School District.

The school year for the county system, with nearly 100,000 students, starts Aug. 13.

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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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