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DCSD launches social networking initiative

The DeKalb County School District has launched a social networking initiative to interact with stakeholders and promote student success. Officials unveiled DCSD’s new Twitter handle @DeKalbSchools at a May 3 event recognizing salutatorians and vale...

DeKalb Schools lease of Fernbank Forest to end in June

Soon the DeKalb County School District will no longer be responsible for the care and maintenance of Fernbank Forest, a 65-acre tract of mature mixed hardwood forest that serves as a nature preserve. On June 30, a 45-year lease of the preserve to DCS...

Grand jury urges DA to investigate board of education, again

A grand jury, in a recent presentment, urged DeKalb County District Attorney Robert James to convene a special grand jury to investigate the actions of the DeKalb County Board of Education. This is the second time in the past six months that grand ju...

DCSD cuts jobs, eliminates programs due to over staffing

The DeKalb County School Board voted April 27 to cut 133 jobs, a move school officials say will save the district $9.3 million. Additionally, the district has implemented cost-saving measures by reducing teachers’ salaries by 6.25 percent. District...

DCSD moves forward with district wide reorganization

The DeKalb County Board of Education approved new job classifications and an aligned salary structure for the DeKalb County School District (DCSD) at its monthly board policy meeting April 18. The move is part of Superintendent Cheryl Atkinson’s on...

DCSD recognizes students for obtaining music, academic scholarships

Chamblee students Kevin Fan, from left, Corey Roberts and Mary Lou Ferguson practice in the stairwell before performing at DCSD’s music scholarship ceremony. Photo by Daniel Beauregard
Don Roberts, instrumental music coordinator for the DeKalb County School District (DCSD), said each year students enrolled in the district’s band programs receive just as many college scholarships as do athletes. Roberts said DeKalb music students ...

Atkinson’s former district still struggling

The former school district of DeKalb County Schools superintendent Cheryl Atkinson is operating under a warning by the state of Ohio and a $12 million deficit. The Lorain City School Board in Ohio voted March 29 to approve a plan to cut 182 posi...

DeKalb school district discovers non-workers on payroll

An audit of employees by the DeKalb County School District has found $47,500 in payroll discrepancies, according to an April 21 press release. The employee verification process was ordered by school Superintendent Cheryl Atkinson in February in conju...

New charter school slated to open in south DeKalb

Lillian Ryan, a board member at the DeKalb Preparatory Academy, said it is a tremendous gift that the DeKalb County School District (DCSD) is allowing DeKalb Prep to use the old Glen Haven Elementary building. Glen Haven, closed last year under then-...

Residents express concern over proposed DCSD calendar changes

The DeKalb County School District (DCSD) recently proposed changes to the 2012-13 school calendar that some residents say could affect the entire community. “In March Superintendent Cheryl Atkinson tasked a committee of stakeholders with looking at...

Students face year in jail for protesting on Emory quad in 2011

Seven college students each could face up to a year in jail for what they say was nothing more than a peaceful protest on Emory University’s quad against the university’s treatment of employees. Emory graduate students Roger Sikes, Laura Emiko So...

DCSD breaks ground on Chamblee High replacement project

Members of Chamblee High Marching Band play at a recent ground-breaking ceremony. An artist’s renderings of what Chamblee High will look like once the construction project is complete are in front of the band members.
School and city officials, residents and students gathered in front of Chamblee Charter High School April 16 to celebrate the start of a $54 million construction project to replace the school. Established in 1917 and accredited in 1935, Chamblee High...

Schools bring locally grown, fresh foods to cafeteria

During April, the featured vegetable of the month is carrots according to DeKalb County School District (DCSD) Nutrition Director Joyce Wimberly. This year DCSD launched a series of district-wide nutrition initiatives aimed at getting students to eat...

Decatur High student spends week living as Muslim woman

Cecilia Kuehnel gets ready to go out in a hijab, a headscarf worn by Muslim women. Photo by Leela Goshorn
For an entire week Decatur High School senior Cecilia Kuehnel wore a hijab, a headscarf worn by Muslim women that covers everything but the eyes. She also awoke at 5 a.m. each morning to pray. “I was praying with hundreds of thousands of people at ...

News update, April 12

Van hits school bus A van collided with a DeKalb County school bus today at approximately 7:12 a.m. The crash occurred at the intersection of Glenwood Road and Santa Cruz Drive in Atlanta. School spokesman Walter Woods said the bus was carr...

School officials find solution for projected shortfall

The DeKalb County School District has found a way to avoid a projected budget shortfall of nearly $40 million for SPLOST III and IV construction projects, school officials announced at an April 9 Board of Education meeting. Additionally, officials sa...

DCSD asks for input on proposed calendar changes

The DeKalb County School District is asking parents to give feedback on three different calendar options for next year, which call for early-release days and a shortened summer. “In March [Superintendent Cheryl Atkinson] tasked a committee of ...

Commissioners against cell tower building permits

The DeKalb County Board of Commissioners has asked CEO Burrell Ellis not to issue building permits to the DeKalb County School Board, which voted last year to install nine cell towers at schools throughout the county. The commissioners voiced their c...

Voters to decide charter school funding in November

Voters will cast ballots Nov. 4 on a constitutional amendment to decide whether the state should fund charter schools that have been denied charters by local school boards. In 2008, the Georgia Charter Schools Act was passed, which created the Georgi...

GDOE labels 19 DeKalb schools as ‘needs improvement’

The Georgia Department of Education (GDOE) recently released its list of schools that need improvement and 19 DeKalb County School District schools are among those named. The “needs improvement” schools fall into two categories under the new rati...

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