A dozen county elementary school students chosen as this year’s winners of the Ninth Annual Allatoona Ally Artist Challenge.
Learn how your tax dollars are being appropriated and how Cobb Schools proposes to balance the budget at a town hall meeting Wednesday night.
Cobb County Schools Superintendent Dr. Michael Hinojosa delivers shocking news at Monday night's board meeting.
A list of schools and class space will be available on Feb. 3, a week prior to the start of the application process.
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Icy conditions persist all over the county.
No teachers or other staff will report.
After-school, evening activities canceled on Tuesday.
East Cobb parents and elected officials were part of the joint effort to address "shoestring budgets" for public education.
Commencement ceremonies will take place from May 21-24.
A former Brumby teacher is vying for the soon-to-be open seat in Post 4, and East Cobb incumbent Scott Sweeney has a challenger.
Local school officials and state lawmakers will be answing questions Thursday night.
Students in the third, fifth and seventh grades were tested last fall.
The East Cobb schools advance to regional competition in February.
Kathleen Angelucci will step down when her term expires at the end of the year.
Mountain View Elementary parents renewed their pleas for a new facility on Wednesday, before the school board held off on voting.
The Expanded Consolidation Implementation Committee (ECIC) of Southern Polytechnic State University and Kennesaw State University is focusing on the creation of 13 individual colleges that will comprise the academic units of the new university.
An East Cobb parent dug into some of the details, and says she didn't find much fat in the front office.
There's another meeting on Jan. 23 at Lassiter High School.
A list of school and class space will be available a week prior to the start of the process.
Principals from several East Cobb schools will be on hand for Tuesday's meeting.
Students from ranging from Walton High to Brumby Elementary will be in action next weekend.
Thursday's event includes Cobb school officials and lawmakers days before a new Georgia legislative session begins.
The board also approved its 2014 meeting schedule on Tuesday.
The first day of the winter semester will start a day later because of the weather.
Employees are to report to work by 10 a.m.
A grassroots parents campaign that began in East Cobb earlier this year is targeting the legislature and governor's office in 2014.
Abatements for the proposed $100 million Riverwalk complex near Cumberland Mall are being challenged in court.
The staff parking lot and new bus port will not be ready by the start of the second semester in early January.
Introducing two parents who've begun posting for Patch about the local education scene.
Although test scores were down slightly on average, Cobb County's 11th graders maintained a high pass rate while the rest of the state saw losses.
They pressed the Cobb school board to replace the newly-appointed head of the school's touted music programs.
Four high schools -- Harison, Lassiter, Pope and Walton -- had graduation rates of 90 percent or better.
The school board has received "an extensive amount of new information" about potential reconstruction projects.
A Thursday meeting at the InfoMart will include a new push to lobby the Georgia legislature.
The funds for the "Robohounds" include a competition grant from NASA.
The Cobb school board could decide on two elementary replacement projects on Wednesday.
OT, other close contests, highlight final-four matchups.
A family of students at both schools lost everything in a Thanksgiving Day blaze.