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Atlanta Public Schools celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month September 15-October 15 to celebrate Hispanic culture and recognize the contributions Hispanic Americans have made to the United States. The students of Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School kicked off National Hispanic Heritage Month this month with a visit from Patricia Arevalo, a representative from the Latin…
→A super-duper debate ‘shout-out’ to our Grady Jesters, the speech and debate team of Grady High School, who competed against 104 schools and 700 entrants from 22 states in this weekend’s Wake Forest University competition in Winston-Salem, NC. The Jesters took a team of 10 students and here are the results: Will Taft, Octafinalist and…
→Friday night was a long night for me and many others in the APS family, and in so many ways it was a vivid reminder of the challenges that face our school system and the Atlanta community more broadly. Friday night football is supposed to be about friendly competition, a showcase of our students’ athletic abilities,…
→It was exciting and heartening when two APS educators were named 2015 Atlanta Families Award winners last week, enabling them to further use their great powers of education! A team of our district leaders and community stakeholders to surprise them: Toomer Elementary teacher Tiffany Smith, who is also that school’s Teacher of the Year, and…
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There are some experiences in life that you just know you will remember forever. Tonight is one of those really special moments for me because I am attending APS Night at the Atlanta Braves vs. Miami Marlins game at Turner Field with about 150 of our APS team members. It’s so much fun that I…
→I’ve written before about the tons of major construction projects in Atlanta Public Schools over the summer from HVAC to new buildings and renovations to portables and playgrounds. And now we’re nearly one month into a new school year, and I have had a chance to access many of those that have recently wrapped up…
→When a loss touches you deeply, it becomes difficult to talk about that person, much less write a remembrance in honor of him. Such it is for me with Julian Bond. I should have posted this sooner, but I simply was not ready yet to say my goodbyes. Now it’s a week after I attended the memorial for him at the King…
→After a long day of work, there’s nothing like enjoying Atlanta Public Schools football. That’s how it was on Thursday. I spent nearly the entire day planning the school year in a retreat with the Atlanta Board of Education. Later that night, I participated in the APS practice run for the East Atlanta Village Runfest.…
→Thanks to the Atlanta Falcons and Northside Hospital, our Athletic Department scored another great win on Tuesday with the official opening of the new APS Athletic Training Facility at Booker T. Washington High School. This facility features state-of-the-art equipment and supplies for training and pre- and post-workout routines. Located at Washington, the facility is available…
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