Congratulations to the Class of 2013! The Ceremony began around 5:00pm
The 2013 Mays High School graduation ceremony! Congrats to all the Grads and their Families! What an amazing graduation! $17.3M in scholarships! - APS
This is your opportunity to voice the qualities and skill sets you want to see in the next superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools.
The Atlanta Board of Education’s Superintendent Search Committee has released the schedule for four community input sessions — May 15, 16, 20 and 21. The sessions are designed to give citizens the opportunity to provide feedback on the characteristics they believe are critical in the next Atlanta Public Schools superintendent. The Superintendent Search Committee has pledged to gather input from all key stakeholders such as parents, teacher and students. “All members of the search committee affirm the importance of gathering extensive community input in this search,” said committee chair Ann Cramer, who is a retired IBM executive and mother of former APS students. “We hope everyone interested will take advantage of this opportunity, and we …
Courtney English and Byron Amos invite you to a special Town Hall Meeting about APS schools in District 2.
On behalf of Mr. Byron Amos and Mr. Courtney English, Cascade Patch would like to invite you to an APS Town Hall Meeting with special invited guest, Erroll Davis, Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent, at Booker T. Washington High School (45 Whitehouse Drive, Atlanta, GA 30314) on Thursday, May 9th, 6:30 pm in the Media Center.
Atlanta Public Schools has just released a list of projects that will affect schools in the 2013-2014 school year.
Bunche Middle School and Sylvan Hills Middle School are just 2 schools in the APS system that will be undergoing renovations in the upcoming 2013-2014 school year that will affect the student body. TalkUp APS, has created a full list of schools that will have renovation and construction work done during the next school year. According to the list, Bunche Middle School students and staff will be, "temporarily relocated to the old Archer High School during the renovation of Bunche MS in Fall of 2013." Students and Staff at Sylvan Hills Middle School, "will merge with and be relocated to Parks Middle School during the construction of a new Sylvan facility," says APS. Which means that Parks Middle School parents and students should be …
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More than a half dozen of the 35 people indicted for their role in the APS cheating scandal were from schools in our area.
These are the photos that these once revered educators and administrators never thought they would take. Thirty five individuals in total have been charged, fingerprinted, and released on bond, for their alleged roles in the historic APS Cheating Scandal. The defendants in this case will see a judge on Friday for arraignments, according to WSB-TV. In the attached video statement by current Superintendent Errol Davis, he says that APS is going to, "improve internal safeguards related to test materials," and that, he supports the, "more than 95% of our employees who were NOT implicated in the scandal." Community members and parents have had tough words for the indicted teachers and administrators. During the Atlanta Board of Education's …
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16 students at West End Academy Performance Learning Center have seen an undeniable transformation thanks to the drive, vision, talent and hard work of themselves and their principal, Dr. Evelyn Mobley.
A kindergarten student from Adamsville Elementary has the APS Spotlight on her this week because of her smarts.
Naija Dubose, a kindergarten student at Adamsville Primary has made the APS Student Spotlight this week for the academic smarts she showcases everyday. Talk Up APS is a blog run by Atlanta Public Schools to highlight everything APS related. In a post this week, they detailed why they have chosen Naija Dubose of Adamsville Primary as one of the leaders of the week: Naija Dubose is an exemplary Kindergarten student in Ms. Bivings’s class at Adamsville Primary Elementary School. She excels academically in all content areas, in addition to possessing a warm and nurturing spirit. She displays honorable character traits among her peers in her classroom and around the school. Even when Naija is enjoying her free time outside of school, she is …
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The Atlanta Board of Education has approved calendars for traditional and year round schools.
The Atlanta Board of Education voted Monday to approved calendars for traditional and year round schools that vary only slightly from the current school year calendar, according to the Atlanta Public Schools website. Two APS elementary school teachers who asked not to be named thought the new schedule wouldn't change much from their standpoint, but hope it will be well received by parents. Some of the obvious changes include moving the first day of class. Instead of students returning on August 6, which was the first Monday in August in 2012, the coming year's start date will be Wednesday, August 7. Winter break stays the same from December 20 until January 7th, and Spring Break is still the second week in April. The only other obvious …
Final approval of the calendar for the next two school years is expected. School safety could also come up.
The Atlanta Board of Education will meet Monday and is expected to adopt a new calendar for the 2013-14 and 2014-15 school years. The Live Blog of a mid-January meeting included the Superintendent's Report on the calendar issue: Changes from past calendars include the consolidation of all schools to a single calendar as well as changes to the scheduling of some staff work days. For 2013-14 and 2014-15, the superintendent’s proposal provides flexibility to principals and supervisors in the scheduling of one (1) teacher work day and in the scheduling of 200-day and 220-day staff members (e.g. counselors, social workers, assistant principals) outside of the teacher work year. This will allow schools to tailor their staff schedules to best …
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Cascade Patch recognizes the accomplishments of 3 local students this week.
The Atlanta Public Schools blog, Talkup APS, has just released its Student Spotlight of the Week article in which students from M.A. Jones Elementary, Parks Middle, Boyd Elementary, and Toomer Elementary were all given acknowledgment for their recent school accomplishments. M.A. Jones Elementary Jada Mumphrey, a 5th grader from M.A. Jones Elementary is said to be, "an exemplary citizen and student. This soft spoken and kindhearted individual excels in all that she does." She has been a honors student since the first grade, and her teachers say she is a model student. “It is simply a joy to be able to work with Jada,” explains Jada’s teacher, Ms. Robin Holloway. According to the blog, "with outstanding effort and fortitude, she has …
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6:28 pm on Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Maybe it's because I'm a northerner, but why do we have a ridiculously different school calendar from the rest of the country? Seems to me that starting & ending school during a time that requires less AC would save costs. And why do kids need to start school in August & be out in June? Nobody else is out in June so it's pretty much a lost month & gosh, I miss being able to visit the NE in August… more ›