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Atlanta Forward: Education

One of the challenges facing APS Superintendent Meria Carstarphen is rebuilding trust so teachers feel safe to speak.
One of the challenges facing APS Superintendent Meria Carstarphen is rebuilding trust so teachers feel safe to speak.
By Maureen Downey
Nov 23, 2014

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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Maureen Downey has written editorials and opinion pieces about local, state and federal education policy since the 1990s.

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