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Wed., October 26, 2011 11:01pm
School officials in the northwest Georgia town of Trion have hired an outside auditor to find out where up to $60,000 from the school district's afterschool program went.
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Mon., October 17, 2011 4:45pm
The Harrington School doesn’t look like much. The abandoned building is surrounded by a rusty metal fence. The roof has holes in it, some wooden siding has fallen off, and it badly needs a coat of paint. The school looked so dilapidated that two years ago, community leaders and even the local historical society had given up hope it could be saved.
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Fri., September 30, 2011 3:30pm
African-American groups and some education advocates want Georgia school officials to collect better data on what they call a "pipeline" from schools to prison. One Texas study tracked over a million kids and determined that -- even accounting for poverty and other factors -- black students were much more likely than whites to receive harsher punishment for similar non-violent and non-drug-related offenses like truancy, improper dress and using cell phones.
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Thu., September 9, 2010 12:45pm
The State Board of Education Thursday adopted the nation’s first standards and ethics policies for local school boards. The Local School Board Governance Standards and Model Ethics Policy is a result of Senate Bill 84 passed earlier this year. It allows the state more control over school boards, including giving the Governor the right to remove school board members if accreditation is at risk.
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Thu., March 11, 2010 10:37am
Legislation that would allow the state's school boards to delay teacher con
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Tue., March 9, 2010 10:49am
Budget cuts alone will not solve the state’s financial problems. House Maj
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Wed., February 10, 2010 6:33pm
Almost 200 elementary and middle schools in Georgia had enough eraser marks
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Tue., December 29, 2009 3:56pm
With the new legislative session set to begin in January, lawmakers are con
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Thu., December 10, 2009 12:36pm
A group of Georgia educators accused in a test cheating scandal are banned
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Tue., October 6, 2009 1:27pm
At the beginning of the school year school teachers in the Richmond County
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