While some school districts continue to excuse away failure and fight accountability, Atlanta Public Schools is thinking way outside the box. School Superintendent Maria Carstarphen has a long letter outlining the changes that APS is embracing. She’s proven both with a stare down with the popular and powerful Mayor (Beltline settlement announced this morning) and
To run for a seat in the Georgia legislature, you need to meet a few qualifications: You must be a resident in your district for at least one year prior to qualifying, you need to be either 25 (for the Senate) or 21 (for the House) years old, and you need to have been Georgia
An annexation proposal by State Representative Howard Mosby (D-Atlanta) would redraw the map of Atlanta to include several neighborhoods along the Memorial Drive corridor. HB 706 has … somehow … already had two legislative readings, meaning it could be presented to local legislative committees for consideration. Mosby told Decaturish yesterday that 911 response time drives
Savannah’s newly elected officials — mayor Eddie DeLoach, at-large alderman Brian Foster, 2nd district alderman Bill Durrence, and 4th district alderman Julian Miller — participated in their first city council meeting last Thursday. That meeting went pretty smoothly, all things considered, and concluded with some fond words for city manager Stephanie Cutter after she announced
Audits should be boring. Audit committees should be extra boring. In DeKalb, not so much. Last month, State Sen. Gloria Butler unceremoniously ganked the DeKalb senate delegation’s appointee to a county audit oversight committee, telling the AJC that Harmel Codi appears to have “an agenda,” and “we want someone on the committee who has the agenda
