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    020708-Woodstock-U.S. Senator Kelly Loeffler greets supporters during a campaign event at the Tuscany Italian restaurant in Woodstock on Wednesday afternoon July 8, 2020. Ben Gray for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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    In this photo provided by student Hannah Watters, students crowd a hallway, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020, at North Paulding High School in Dallas, Ga. The 30,000-student suburban Paulding County school district in suburban Atlanta resumed classes Monday with 70% of students returning for in-person classes five days a week, days after the principal at North Paulding announced some members of the football team had tested positive for COVID-19. The district says it is encouraging mask use, but isn't requiring it. (Hannah Watters via AP)
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    06/26/2020 - Atlanta, Georgia - Georgia Speaker of the House David Ralston (R-Blue Ridge) watches as Gov. Brian Kemp speaks to members of the House Chambers on Sine Die, day 40, of the legislative session in Atlanta, Friday, June 26, 2020. (ALYSSA POINTER / ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)
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    FILE - In this July 17, 2020, file photo, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp returns to his office after giving a coronavirus briefing at the Capitol in Atlanta. Kemp says he's withdrawing a request for an emergency order that would block Atlanta from ordering people to wear masks in public or imposing other restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)
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    Kemp to Georgia agencies: no new budget cuts next fiscal year
    Voters lined up in the rain June 6 to vote early at Garden Hills Elementary School in Atlanta for the Georgia primary. Voting in the primary was plagued by long lines, spurring a lawsuit filed Thursday against the state seeking court intervention to help elections run more smoothly. JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM
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    A regional board has developed a list of nine projects that could be candidates for state transit funding. Among them: rehabilitation of MARTA stations and tracks. (AJC FILE PHOTO)
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    Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard speaks during a news conference on June 17, 2020, at Fulton County Superior Courthouse, where he announced the charges against Garrett Rolfe, the now-fired police officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks twice as Brooks ran during an attempted arrest in an Atlanta Wendy’s parking lot. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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    Vice President Joe Biden, second from left, talks with Sen. Sam Nunn, left, developer Tom Cousins and executive director of the East Lake Foundation, Carol Naughton at the East Lake Early Leaning Academy Tuesday March 4, 2014.
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    In his bid for re-election, Republican U.S. Sen. David Perdue, left, faces Democrat Jon Ossoff.
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    A kindergarten teacher had been working at R.M. Moore Elementary School Stem Academy without symptoms but she began showing symptoms after school on Monday, Aug. 3, 2020. The teacher did not come to school on Tuesday or Wednesday. Her class must now quarantine for two weeks.
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    A child at Shelton Elementary fell ill on Monday and later tested positive for COVID-19, leading Paulding to tell some students in the class to stay home Tuesday.
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    Paulding confirms COVID-19 case on first day at elementary school
    A counselor who works with high school students applying to colleges warns that Georgia colleges will suffer if the University System continues to mandate ACT or SAT scores for admission. "If USG does not change its testing policy for fall 2021, thousands of qualified students will have to leave Georgia to attend college next year," she says.
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    On October 23, 2019, Councilman Antonio Brown visited a blighted apartment complex on Verbena Street in northwest Atlanta, where he talked with reporters. (Bob Andres / robert.andres@ajc.com)
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    In this photo provided by student Hannah Watters, students crowd a hallway, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020, at North Paulding High School in Dallas, Ga. The 30,000-student suburban Paulding County school district in suburban Atlanta resumed classes Monday with 70% of students returning for in-person classes five days a week, days after the principal at North Paulding announced some members of the football team had tested positive for COVID-19. The district says it is encouraging mask use, but isn't requiring it. (Hannah Watters via AP)
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    Photos of crowded school hallways in Paulding lead to national stir
    06/26/2020 - Atlanta, Georgia - Georgia Speaker of the House David Ralston (R-Blue Ridge) watches as Gov. Brian Kemp speaks to members of the House Chambers on Sine Die, day 40, of the legislative session in Atlanta, Friday, June 26, 2020. (ALYSSA POINTER / ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)
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    Kemp’s call for special session raises skepticism among lawmakers
    Voters lined up in the rain June 6 to vote early at Garden Hills Elementary School in Atlanta for the Georgia primary. Voting in the primary was plagued by long lines, spurring a lawsuit filed Thursday against the state seeking court intervention to help elections run more smoothly. JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM
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    07/22/2020 - Atlanta, Georgia - Gov. Brian Kemp speaks during a special service to honor the legacy of C.T. Vivian as his body lie in state inside the rotunda at the Georgia State Capitol Building, Wednesday, July 22, 2020. (ALYSSA POINTER / ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)
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    Longtime Georgia House members facing runoff competition
    Gov. Brian Kemp said Wednesday that in the coming weeks he will call a special session of the Legislature to give a tax break to South Georgians devastated by Hurricane Michael in 2018. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
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    Gov. Brian Kemp signed a bill into law meant to create new protections for police on Wednesday, the last day for him to either approve or veto bills passed during the 2020 legislative session. Ben Gray for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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    Georgia House Speaker David Ralston has urged the state's two U.S. senators to vote for $500 billion in aid for state governments as part of a coronavirus pandemic relief package. “Georgia’s economy is typically a strong network of diverse revenue streams, but the pandemic has affected all of them, even those like motor fuel that typically tend to resist downturns,” Ralston wrote in a letter to Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue. “The lagging effect on our largest revenue sources, income and sales taxes, is presenting us with additional challenges for months to come.”(ALYSSA POINTER / ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)
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    Voters lined up in the rain June 6 to vote early at Garden Hills Elementary School in Atlanta for the Georgia primary. Voting in the primary was plagued by long lines, spurring a lawsuit filed Thursday against the state seeking court intervention to help elections run more smoothly. JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM
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    Joe Biden speaks to the NABJ/NAHJ panel about cognitive testing.
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    Vice President Joe Biden, second from left, talks with Sen. Sam Nunn, left, developer Tom Cousins and executive director of the East Lake Foundation, Carol Naughton at the East Lake Early Leaning Academy Tuesday March 4, 2014.
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    March 29, 2020 Atlanta: Customers wait in line to enter the Home Depot store at Midtown Place while the store limits the number of occupants to maintain six feet of space between shoppers and help prevent the spread of coronavirus on Sunday, March 29, 2020, in Atlanta. Curtis Compton ccompton@ajc.com
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    Mandates, lawsuits, more: The state of masks in Georgia
    Georgia State Senator Nikema Williams (Democrat - 39 holds her son Carter Small after Williams gave her speech for the Democratic Party of Georgia Chair position at the 2019 Georgia Democratic Party State Convention in Atlanta GA January 26, 2019. STEVE SCHAEFER / SPECIAL TO THE AJC
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    FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2019 file photo, Civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., is hugged as House Democrats gathered before passing the Voting Rights Advancement Act to eliminate potential state and local voter suppression laws, at the Capitol in Washington. At right is Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., who introduced the bill and who represents Selma, Ala., a city that was at the forefront of the 1960s civil rights movement. They are joined at far right by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. Mourning the death of civil rights hero John Lewis, Democrats are urging the Senate to take up a bill of enduring importance to Lewis throughout his life: protecting and expanding the right to vote. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Whip Jim Clyburn and other Democrats say the Senate should take up a House-passed bill to restore key sections of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and rename it for Lewis. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called Lewis a “great man” who helped bend the nation’s history toward justice, but Republicans appear unlikely to bring up the voting rights bill for a Senate vote. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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    The life and legacy of John Lewis
    07/07/2020 - Atlanta, Georgia - Bruce W. Griggs, right, holds onto a giant sympathy card for Secoriea Turner's family as a man signs it outside of the All American Package Store in Atlanta's Peoplestown community, Tuesday, July 7, 2020. The card was provided by radio DJ Gregg Street and the OCS Atlanta Street Academy. (ALYSSA POINTER / ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)
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