Stories tagged "Education"
Meet the candidates: 2025 APS School Board election

Learn where each school board candidate stands on the issues that matter to your community.

Community Notebook: Rose Circle Park gets street crossing signage

Our weekly feature, Community Notebook, is filled with snippets of information, conversations, and reporting about the communities where we work.

West End elementary school faces possible closure

In the recently released APS Facilities Plan, historic West End schools are preserved, but M.A. Jones Elementary is at risk.

Community Notebook: June 4, 2025

Our weekly feature, Community Notebook, is filled with snippets of information, conversations, and reporting about the communities where we work.

Viola Turner stands in front of the Viola Turner Theater at Tri-Cities High School in East Point, Georgia.
How an arts magnet program became Viola Turner’s “God-given mission”

She brought world-class instructors to Tri-Cities High School. Decades later, she’s still making sure the program is here to stay.

Skarlet Molina (right) chats with a classmate at Meadowcreek High School in Norcross, Georgia.
How can schools better support multilanguage learners?

In Gwinnett, students who speak English as a second language graduate at lower rates than their peers. Advocates say the education system could do a better job of getting them across the finish line.

Día de Reyes traditions come to life at a DeKalb County School

“It’s important for us to keep the tradition going . . . this allows our kids to experience it like we did.”

Eid and other religious holidays don’t make it into Gwinnett County school calendar

GCPS Board of Education announced it would stick with a similar calendar to previous ones for the next two academic years.

Back to school in Forest Park

Forest Park’s students, parents, and administrators grapple with the past and future of their school system

Young boy sits in front of computer
West End’s school daze

How students, parents and staff are grappling with a new learning reality