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Atlanta Forward: Education

By Maureen Downey
Dec 7, 2014

Today I discuss a new survey that finds 98 percent of the CEOs of top U.S. corporations fear lagging science and math skills are hurting their businesses and the economy. In a guest column, a DeKalb County parent says the school district is going about its search for a new superintendent the wrong way and should follow the approach used by the Atlanta Public Schools. And readers sound off about a new study on teacher salaries.

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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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