Program at Cook Elementary aims to show kids why healthy foods are not only good for them, but good, too.
Friday, March 30, is the deadline to let APS officials know what you think.
"I don't think APS has done the job it should have done in terms of educating kids"
Superintendent addresses questions ranging from why blame parents for failing schools to overhead at APS' central office to perceived neglect of Southeast Atlanta.
'This is not only a school, this is a family.'
Coan's closure is still an option, though.
Parents and Coan supporters voice their concerns on Davis' proposal for the middle school.
Committee's counter-proposals: Either add Mary Lin Elementary as a feeder to Coan or create a sixth grade academy that's open to all in School Reform Team 3.
'We strongly recommend a location for the proposed 6th grade seats within the Grady cluster geographic area and are happy to work together as a community to find a mutually agreeable alternative'
'Closing Coan Middle School. . . would represent Atlanta’s turning away from a new direction for improving youth outcomes that the rest of the country is eager to embrace.'
Why Coan Middle School is important.
Coan Middle schoolers weigh in on proposed changes, which includes the closure of their school.
Coan supporters plan March 10 rally to keep middle school off closure list.
'We are being pushed out of our own neighborhood school.'
Superintendent's recommendations call for closures of East Lake and Cook elementary schools.
Students make contact, interview astronaut, capping a week of space-related and science-intensive activities for NASA week.
For East Atlanta Patch schools: Close East Lake Elementary, keep Whitefoord and Burgess-Peterson open for three years and merge Thomasville Heights into Benteen Elementary.
Burgess-Peterson's littlest gardeners pay tribute to an agricultural great.
Winner will be announced June 1.
Formal submission to the Atlanta Board of Education is March 5.
Historic 1930s building earmarked for demolition by developer.
Date for East Atlanta Patch Schools is March 21 at Jackson High School.
A breakdown of who goes where.
School fundraisers, sports registration and more.
'Reynoldstown is still a neighborhood on the rise, and zoning us with our neighbors to a school that we could work together to improve would continue this growth rather than hindering it.'
Group cites walkability, Emory University and business connections and future growth as reasons to keep Whitefoord open.
Taking stock of where our kids actually go to school.
Cabbagetown makes public plea for the schools cluster it favors.
Keep Kirkwood together at Toomer Elementary, bring East Lake's children to Toomer if their school closes and bring Mary Lin Elementary to Coan Middle School.
Statement now goes to the Organized Neighbors of Edgewood for a vote.
In wide-ranging interview, Erroll B. Davis talks about the redistricting and his impressions of the process, so far.
Expansion projects, like the one Mary Lin Elementary community has been expecting through Special Purpose Local Option Sales Taxes, are not guaranteed.
Old Fourth Ward rallies to keep Hope-Hill Elementary open.
Parents say they believe in public school education and want to be involved. Atlanta Public Schools needs to give them an option that allows them to do that.
Goals: Full inclusion of O4W in the Grady High School cluster, keeping Hope-Hill Elementary open and to consider the repurposing of former DFavid T. Howard School.
'Mary Lin is a cornerstone of our community and a source of community pride, and we have invested a great deal of sweat equity into it.'
Parents of repeat offenders now face fines, jail time.
Clear K-12 feeder patterns, experienced teachers and administrators are two key goals.
Seniors announce fall college choices at National Signing Day ceremony.
Lara Zelski named principal of ANCS' elementary campus.