Atlanta School Children in A Crisis

Atlanta was in one of the worst crisis in history when the snow feel last week keeping millions on the freeway and students trapped in schools. Many were in shock to see the city in such a bad state of emergency. The Mayor Kasim Reed and Governor Deal both held press conferences to explain the madness going on with the winter storm crisis in Atlanta. A lot of our students were help captive inside the schools as a result of not being able to put buses on the road.


Children trapped in schools and on buses in rare Atlanta snow storm ...
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Thousands of students were stranded overnight in schools after a rare winter storm hit the deep south. In Atlanta, schools closed early Tuesday but slippery roads created massive traffic jams and it took hours to get some kids ...
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The Great Atlanta Snow Storm: Who Is to Blame? - Patheos
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The snow arrived mid-day so that most people were already at work or school when it became obvious the storm would bring more snow than expected. As we left our lunch at The Forum in Norcross around 2 PM, all the ...
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Politics of Education

Image via Wikipedia The Public School System in Atlanta is having its fair share of problems. Students in the school system seem to be getting less attention due to the politics of education. Atlanta school system has so many factors on the table about how the students should be getting educated that its affecting the students education.

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Substitute Money

Image via Wikipedia I have worked in the Atlanta Public School system for quite some time as a substitute. The substitute game has had its good days, and bad days, but the number one problem I think is the substitute money that most subs are being paid at this moment. Now, Atlanta Public Schools used to pay really good money a 175.00 dollars a day, which was great pay for a certified susbtitue teacher who still wanted to be in the profession without being in the politics of education.

I think Atlanta Public Schools has really messed up there budget money, and now they are taking it out on the subs by reducing the substitute money. The school system is now paying them somewhere between 10.00-12.00 and hour and thats not enough when your dealing problems inside the classroom as a regulgar teacher. I think that the substitue is just as valuable as the teacher to the clas and APS needs to really look at increasing the substitute money they are paying the subs for an honest days work.

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Atlanta Public School Accredation

Image via Wikipedia Atlanta public has been in the news everyday regarding the school being put on probation. Atlanta Public School was caught cheating on Standardized Testing at certain schools that the Governor Sunny Purdue had to step in and send a team down for the misconduct of the school system. A team from SACS came into invesitagate the schools alleged charges about cheating on the CRCT. The SACS team has placed Atlanta Public School System on probation so that it won't lose its accredation. Many parents, teachers, and school board members are really upset about the how SACS is handeling this investigation.

Concerned Black Clergy Press Conference Atlanta Public School

WSB News Clergy: CRCT Investigation is a Witch Hunt By Jay Black @ December 7, 2010 3:42 AM By Chris Chandler WSB Radio (WSB Radio) -- A group of black clergy says the CRCT cheating scandal is a witch hunt against Georgia's black teachers. About two-...

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Winter Snow make up days

The Winter Snow Storm has finally left the southeast. Atlanta and surrounding Metro Counties school system are being asked when will schools make up snow days. The last week has really been a huge problem for Atlanta and the Metro Counties cause of the ice. Ice has really been the big problem with the roads. The DOT( Department of Transportation) had a tough time clearing the roads and putting salt down to melt the snow and ice.

North & South Carolina & Georgia NOT Observing Martin Luther King Day To Make Up School Snow Days

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Metro Schools Working To Reschedule Snow Days - WSB News on ...

(WSB Radio) -- For the first time in recent memory, metro Atlanta schools have been forced to cancel classes for an entire week because of the snow and ice that hit Sunday night. But the snow may be long gone before school districts can figure out where to reschedule this lost week. The state allows each school system four scheduled make-up days per year. Districts will have to make up this week, plus many lost another snow day when classes were canceled December 16 ...

Atlanta Public May Loose Its Accreditation

Image by Getty Images via @daylife Atlanta Public Schools is under firer for its handling of test. A recent news cast showed that Atlanta Board of Education may loose its accreditation's and board members may be fired for lack of job performance. The Governor Mr. Nathan Deal has taken off from where Governor Sunny Barnes left off. Governor Deal is ready to bring in the state board in to firer board members if the Atlanta Board of Education can't fix its problem. Mayor Kasim Reed believe that he is taking the right steps to keep Atlanta Board of Education from losing its accreditation's.

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Dr Hall and The Impressions "You've Been Cheatin"

This video was shot on location in Atlanta, Georgia and Produced By Biscuits N Gravy Productions. The Atlanta Public Schools system is plagued with widespread cheating on state standardized tests, wildly inaccurate graduation rate data and misleading...

Organized Teachers and Classroom

Organized Education

Many teachers through out the Atlanta Public School System seem to have a tough time when it comes to keep behavior problems down due to unorganized planning and effective classroom etiquette. I have noticed that the more organized the teacher is and the less problems she has inside the classroom. For example Ms. Cannon at North Atlanta high school has to be the most effective school teacher in the state. She is so well organized that kids sign in if they are late etc. which allows her to just concentrate on teaching. Here are a few steps that will help you in becoming and organized teacher.

1. Buy a binder to organize your paperwork. Find one that you really like since you'll carry it with your everywhere. Use dividers labeled "calendar," "gradebook," "lesson plans," "class info," "seating charts" and "miscellaneous." You can add other sections, if desired, but keep it manageable or your binder will become too bulky to carry. Make sure to create a nice cover or label--some way for you to quickly identify your notebook from any others laying around.

2. Add a pouch to your binder to hold essentials, such as pens and sticky notes. Use the sticky notes to jot quick notes to yourself or add things to your calendar or lesson plan quickly. Also add a plastic pocket to hold things that you need to file loose papers.

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School Discipline is A Problem

I have noticed since working in the schools that many students around the Atlanta Public Schools System are out of control. The school discipline in middle schools and high schools are crazy and becoming a growning problem by the minute. I have noticed since being inside the Atlanta Public School system that the discipline problem is really growing by leaps and bounds. Now this does not apply to all schools but a large part of the system seems to let the children get away with murder. Hall monitors are hard to find when trouble breaks out and getting someone to come a remove a student from your classroom is like trying to hit the lottery.

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Board Members of Atlanta Public Schools

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Public Schools Board Member have been under firer for the mess going on inside the Atlanta Public School System. Many people want Dr. Beverly Hall to step down and get some new managment. Atlanta public schools have under fire since the alleged cheating scandal of the CRCT test among elementary and middle schools.

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School Systems in Peril

100 Atlanta school employees implicated in test cheating scandal

Atlanta Public Schools are in peril due to the city wide cheating scandal. Most of the schools in the district have been under evaluation for cheating on the CRCT. Dr. Beverly Hall has been asked to step down because of the cheating test scandal.

An investigation of suspected cheating at Atlanta Public Schools has concluded that as many as 100 employees at 12 schools violated testing protocols, the chairman of a special investigative committee told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Thursday.

Gary Price, chairman of the independent panel that was formed to investigate irregularities on state standardized tests at city schools, did not detail the violations, which could range from inadvertently violating test security rules to outright cheating. Price’s committee will release the key findings and recommendations from its exhaustive three-month inquiry on Tuesday.

"I'm outraged, primarily because I think about 50,000 kids in this system," said Price. He has also declined to name the schools where these employees work, although school names will be included in the findings, he said. "If [students] don't perform well on these tests, if we've been passing people along through the system, that's the important issue.



DeKalb fires 2, demotes 2 over sales of books written by administrators

What is it for a principal to make a 100,000 a year and want a little more money.
Several principals in the Dekalb county school system wrote books and then sold the books to the county totaling up to thousands of dollars. Princiapls who wrote books took it upon themselves to buy and sale copies of their own books which brought about the investigation.

DeKalb County’s top school official is firing two principals and demoting two other officials after an internal investigation found school funds were used to purchase thousands of dollars worth of books that school administrators had written. The personnel moves came in response to an investigation into the book sales by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

All told, the school system found three educators-turned-authors raked in a total of almost $100,000 in sales to district schools. One principal used her school’s funds to buy more than $11,000 worth of copies of her own book.

Interim Superintendent Ramona Tyson said the investigation uncovered a misuse of school funds that was “alarming,” “disturbing” and “unethical.”

In addition to the firings and demotions, Tyson outlined policy recommendations to the school board so the problem won’t happen again.