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Roswell, South Fulton select new mayors in runoff election
Runoffs decided more than a dozen local contests in metro Atlanta on Tuesday.
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Decatur needs transparency before committing $23M to early learning center
CSD proposes spending $23.1M to build a new early childhood center, while also closing Westchester Elementary. But it hasn't shown this is the most cost effective approach.
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New Fulton charter school aims to move students on a path to success
The Atlanta location is the newest of the nine Movement Schools, and the first in Georgia, These public charter schools specialize in education and financial literacy.
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AI does not have the answers to mental health challenges for our youth
AI does not truly understand mental health trauma and, therefore, attempts to focus on oversimplistic solutions, like viewing the issue as a physical health deficiency.
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Parents are cautiously optimistic as Decatur slows school closure plans
School board members have said whatever they decide to do won’t affect the 2026-27 school year.
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Georgia colleges consider controversial test as option to SAT
A contentious standardized college admissions test designed to usurp the SAT and ACT — and reshape the American education system — is gaining traction in conservative states.
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Georgia education leaders call for cellphone ban in high schools
The Georgia Department of Education wants to ban cellphones in high schools too, not just K-8 classrooms.
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Trump can’t kill the Education Department by interagency agreement
Wanting to shutter the department is not the same as having the power to do it, which shows in the president’s recent actions that merely move functions to other agencies.
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Trump maintains commitment to Project 2025 to dismantle Education Department
Breaking up the department will exacerbate educational inequities along socioeconomic, racial and ability lines.
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Acting Dekalb superintendent gets salary bump, 1-year contract to ensure ‘stable leadership’
The contract, obtained via an open records request, doesn't mean Sauce will be the permanent superintendent of the DeKalb County School District.












