The start of the 2024-2025 school year is just around the corner and back-to-school events are happening all across the metro to get parents and students prepared.
Parents in Atlanta will have another opportunity to meet the Atlanta Public Schools’ sole finalist for superintendent at a town hall Tuesday night. This will be the second in a series of meetings.
By Jennifer Lifsey, Asia Wilson and Rebekka Schramm
Parents whose children attend the Atlanta Girls’ School are scrambling to find new schools for their daughters after school leaders announced that they're preparing to close it.
Students at Benjamin E. Mays High School will notice heightened security on campus Thursday after four students were shot in the school’s parking lot on Wednesday.
A winter weather advisory is in effect for northern metro Atlanta, which includes Fulton, Cobb, Douglas and Cherokee counties and almost all of northwest Georgia through noon on Tuesday.
A FIRST ALERT WEATHER DAY is in place ahead of what could be another round of severe weather in our area. The impacts of this storm will come in the late morning, afternoon and early evening. Some schools in metro Atlanta have announced they will close.
Atlanta Public Schools is reversing course, saying it would now pay employees a $1,000 bonus announced Monday by Gov. Brian Kemp after Georgia’s superintendent of education sent out a public letter criticizing the system for saying it wouldn’t pay the money.
In a letter, State Superintendent Richard Woods said his office has gotten “countless emails and phone calls” from concerned APS educators asking why they would not be getting the bonus from the state.
The state Department of Education on Thursday released a full spectrum of school accountability numbers for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic. But there isn’t a single number to sum up the performance of any one school or district. And that could ultimately mean the end of Georgia’s A-to-F letter grade system for schools and districts.
Students at Lee Street Elementary School are on the receiving end of free books. On Friday, each student in grades PreK through 5th will receive a goodie backpack stuffed with five books - for a total of 2,680 books donated.
Eight Fulton County middle school students took part in a ceremony Tuesday, signing commitments to graduate high school and accept $10,000 scholarships.
The program helps single borrowers earning less than $32,800 per year or families of four making less than $67,000 by reducing their repayment to as little as $0 while protecting them from growing interest.
Still Elementary School third grade teacher Jasmyn Lambert was killed on Saturday. The Paulding County Sheriff’s Office said her husband is charged with murder.
Georgia’s rising public high school graduation rate hit a record in 2023, with the state Department of Education saying Tuesday that 84.4% of seniors graduated on time in the spring.
Since federal student loan repayments started back in October, scammers are looking to fool people out of their money, and they’ve got nearly 27 million people with federal student loan debt to target.