The Economic Policy Institute sent out this depressing summary today showing that the wages of young college graduates have failed to grow over the last decade. One indicator to me of the bleak job market is how many college graduates are now living ba... »
Margaret Spellings Daniel Malloy, the AJC’s reporter in Washington, D.C., sat down with former U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings for an interview at an event in Washington today. Here are her answers to a series of questions on major educati... »
Atlanta joined other metro school systems in announcing plans to lay off employees to cope with a worsening budget crisis. Gwinnett is planning for 585 fewer employees, Cobb is planning for 250 fewer, Henry is planning to cut 200, DeKalb is planning fo... »
Here is a letter from former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin on behalf of Drew Charter School’s request to expand to a high school, a request opposed by APS school chief Erroll Davis. Davis argues that a new 600-student high school at Drew dilutes the s... »
There seems to be little good news on the school budget front in Cobb where parents are looking at fewer days and teachers as the system grapples with fallen real estate taxes and reduced state funding. Here would be my concerns if I were a Cobb parent... »
Many countries, including Finland, do not offer sports at schools. Sports are community-based rather than school based. I wonder if that could eventually become the U.S. model as schools struggle to decide which programs to jettison to cope with dimini... »
Stephanie Jones, a former Atlanta Public School teacher, is a graduate student in education at the University of Georgia. This is her first essay for the Get Schooled blog By Stephanie P. Jones I never learned anything about the Emmett Till case when I... »
Former APS school chief Beverly Hall remains in Atlanta. (AJC Photo) The Sunday AJC has an update today on the status of former APS superintendent Beverly Hall. While APS is moving ahead in its efforts to dismiss educators accused of cheating, there ar... »
DeKalb schools released a statement this weekend about its call for all employees to show identification in person and sign a form to confirm: The DeKalb County School District has completed an extensive Employee Verification process to ensure the accu... »
The AJC’s Christian Boone spoke today with the parents of the handcuffed Milledgeville kindergartner Salecia Johnson. As we all expected, this story is shifting to a national stage. What remains unclear is whether this little girl has had a history of ... »
I would never show this video in a work setting, but I am not sure Columbus High School principal Marvin Crumbs should have lost his school over it. AJC.com reports that Crumbs was reassigned to an office job after showing this “Can’t Fix Stupid” snipp... »
I have been getting a lot of notes lately from teachers in APS about assorted concerns. Here are two such notes, one about some teachers having to reapply for their jobs and the other about the CRCT scheduling this year. I contacted APS and have includ... »
The handcuffing of an unruly kindergartner in Milledgeville is escalating from an unfortunate incident into a national cause. There is great debate over whether police overreacted last week when they handcuffed the child at Creekside Elementary after b... »
Austin Fisher gets to walk. Like many of you, I’ve been following the story of the 17-year-old Ohio high school senior barred from his graduation because he missed too many school days. Austin missed 16 days of classes at Carrollton High School this ye... »
A few folks sent me links to this news story out of Milledgeville where an officer handcuffed a kindergartner for what police said were safety concerns about the child’s out-of-control behavior. The readers who sent me the link to this story disapprove... »
