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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Breaking Down the APS $1.7 Billion Budget
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. How the City Council votes earns most of the headlines, but the Atlanta Board of Education’s budget is a much bigger deal in terms of tax dollars spent. The […]
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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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Have Questions About the School Board Election? We Have You Covered.
Early voting for Atlanta Board of Education elections kicks off on Oct 16. Ten candidates are vying for five seats on the board, which governs Atlanta Public Schools and its more than 50,000 students across the city. With polls opening soon, Capital B Atlanta answered some frequently asked questions people might have about the school […]
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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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Low Turnout, High Stakes: Why Atlanta School Board Elections Matter
Iesha Lyons has always picked her daughter up from school. As she sat in her car one afternoon in August, stuck in a long line outside Howard Middle School, she admitted she might change her stance after the 8th-grader graduates this spring. “Maybe she will ride the bus when she goes to high school,” Lyons […]
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Atlanta School Board Seats Are Open: Ready to Run?
August means back-to-school time for thousands of students at Atlanta Public Schools. But it also marks the start of election season for the school board. Aug. 23-25 is the official qualifying period for potential candidates to put their name in the running for the upcoming APS School Board elections, which will take place on Nov. […]
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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 […]
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How Does the Atlanta Public School Budget Work?
This story was originally published by Atlanta Civic Circle. Education budgets are like iPhones: they’re expensive and essential, but few of us know exactly how they work. It doesn’t have to be that way, says Eshé P. Collins, Atlanta Board of Education chair and District 6 representative. “We have a very nice-sized budget, and a […]