Thursday, March 1, 2012
Senate tables proposed constitutional amendment pushed by Edward Lindsey
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
From Patch Reports The State Senate Wednesday afternoon tabled a proposed constitional amendment to give the state more power in funding and authorizing charter schools, The Atlanta Journal-Consitution reported. The legislation was co-sponsored in the House by House Majority Whip Edward Lindsey, who represents Buckhead. In the Senate, the leglslation failed to receive the two-thirds approva needed to pass a proposed constitutional amendent. However, the legislation could still be reconsidered this legislative session. State Sen. Vincent Fort, a Democrat who represents Buckhead, opposed the legislation. Buckhead public school advocates closely followed the bill. Opponents said it would lead to less local control over schools. Proponents …
Friday, August 26, 2011
PTA co-president says school, 200 students over capacity, violates city fire code
E. Rivers Elementary School is 200 students over capacity and has converted its auditorium into four classrooms, according to a PTA co-president. APS officials had planned to install two temporary buildings in the fields besides E. Rivers, but city of Atlanta inspectors wouldn’t give the school a certificate of occupancy because the temporary buildings were determined to be upon a flood plain, said PTA co-president Elise Lowry. The determination was made a week before school, forcing acting Principal Sabrina Hayes and APS facilities department officials to decide to convert the auditorium into classrooms. The temporary buildings are being removed. “We don’t have any more classroom space. Everything is spoken for at this point,” Lowry said …
Friday, July 29, 2011
Warrior musicians prepare for fall performances
North Atlanta High School band camp finishes next week with a Band Preview Show on Tuesday, Aug. 2, at 7 p.m. at the school. When Patch stopped by on Thursday afternoon the sound of music tickled our ears before we even entered the building. The band practiced loud and proud to tunes such as Maroon5's new single, "Moves Like Jagger," and the sound of brass and drums reminded us that football season is right around the corner.
GBI finds "airtight" test procedures after 9.7% of school's classrooms flagged in report
Garden Hills Elementary, the only Buckhead APS school not in the "clear" category in the state's CRCT answer erasure findings, received a clean report from the GBI, the school's principal said. The school had 9.7 percent of its classrooms flagged for erasures above the Georgia average on the 2009 Criterion Referenced Competency Test, placing it in the "of minimal concern" category, according to the state's APS cheating report released July 5. Principal Amy Wilson Alderman in a phone interview said that the GBI in a related investigation "didn't find anything of concern" at the school. The GBI in interviews with Garden Hills teachers and administrators found the school to have "airtight" test procedures, Alderman said, and that the school …
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