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Meet the Educator Who Wants to be the First Active Teacher on the APS Board

This story was published as part of our #APSVotes project with Atlanta Civic Circle to help shed light on APS school board elections. Read our school board election voting guide here. Alfred “Shivy” Brooks’ outlook as an educator changed at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.  An economics and government teacher at Clayton County’s Charles […]

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Chronic Absenteeism Has More Than Doubled in Atlanta Public Schools

This story was published as part of our #APSVotes project with Atlanta Civic Circle to help shed light on APS school board elections. Read our school board election voting guide here. At first glance, the Back 2 School Bash looked like Atlanta Public Schools’ version of Dragon Con.  Over 12,000 families milled around the Georgia World Congress Center’s convention floor […]

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The Push to Amplify Black Voices in ATL School Board Elections

This story was published as part of our #APSVotes project with Atlanta Civic Circle to help shed light on APS school board elections. Read our school board election voting guide here. Before Kimberly Dukes was an Atlanta Public Schools mother, she was a student in the system. She remembers how her mother couldn’t always be present during her educational journey.  […]

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APS Candidates Talk School Discipline and Racial Inequities

School disciplinary practices and the inequities they highlight are one of the major issues parents and stakeholders are paying attention to as the upcoming election for Atlanta Public Schools Board of Education nears. For a district that was 72.2% Black in 2022, Black students made up 93.5% of out-of-school suspensions and 100% of expulsions. These numbers […]

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DeKalb County Schools Has a New Superintendent. Here’s What Residents Think.

The decision-making process LaTasha Adams went through before deciding to enroll her 8-year-old daughter at Wadsworth Magnet School was intense. The Decatur resident, who lives in the Columbia Woods neighborhood, had been home-schooling her daughter Zoey, but after taking a site tour of the magnet school in South DeKalb, and meeting the administrators, she was […]