What do the top teachers in the Atlanta Public Schools want management to know? I write about a recent workshop where many educators spoke candidly. Separately, with Thanksgiving upon us, we take up the question of healthy eating. To improve the eating habits of American students, many dangerously obese, the federal government has imposed controversial new standards for low-calorie, healthy school lunches. A Georgia school nutritionist endorses the standards, while readers share their views.

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Austin Walters died from an overdose in 2021 after taking a Xanax pill laced with fentanyl, his father said. A new law named after Austin and aimed at preventing deaths from fentanyl has resulted in its first convictions in Georgia, prosecutors said. (Family photo)

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