Most local government offices are closed Thanksgiving and Friday as well as the weekend.
Here are the Thanksgiving closings for government and public schools in DeKalb County: DeKalb County Banks DeKalb County Schools
The DeKalb County School District has placed several students' scarecrows on display at the mall through Nov. 5.
Take one plain scarecrow plus lots of imagination to equal a spectacular scarecrow display at North DeKalb Mall. The display is brought to you by the art department of select DeKalb County schools. Come out and enjoy the artistic display by the students from the DeKalb County School District. Scarecrows included are “Candy,” Uncle Sam, Pirate, Madea, FrankenJaguar, ScareOwl, Lion Vampire and Michael Jackson! You can see them all at North DeKalb Mall now until Nov. 5 at regular mall hours.
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The closest meeting will be held at Tucker High School on Monday.
DeKalb County Board of Education chair and District 9 member Gene Walker said this week the proposed Georgia Charter Commission will lead to an unequal and economically segregated school system.
The creation of a Georgia Charter Commission would lead to an erosion of local tax dollars and an inequality of education in DeKalb County and other local school districts, DeKalb County Board of Education member Gene Walker said this week. In a column published in Neighbor Newspapers, the board chair and District 9 representative said a charter school commission run by the state would siphon $430 million from local school districts and cherry pick the best students in each system, leaving the poorest and most troubled students to the leadership of under-funded school districts. A revival of such a commission will be on the ballot on Election Day. The referendum seeks to ammend the Georgia Constitution to allow the state government to …
The closest meeting with Cheryl Atkinson will be held at Tucker High School on Tuesday, Oct. 16.
DeKalb County School System Superintendent Cherly Atkinson is hosting a series of roundtable meetings for parents in each region of the school district. The meeting closest to the North Druid Hills-Briarcliff area will be at Tucker High School on Tuesday, Oct. 16. Here's the information courtesy of the Lakeside High School PTSA: Dr. Cheryl Atkinson, DCSD Superintendent, will host a series of roundtable meetings - one in each region - to help facilitate dialogue between families and the DeKalb County School District. These are open forums for all DeKalb County parents. Parents are encouraged to attend one of the sessions. Questions may be submitted in advance. To email questions, click here. The meetings will take place from 7 p.m. …
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DeKalb County School System Superintendent Cheryl Atkinson will give the address before the Emory Lavista Parent Council.
The legendary race car driver joined Superintendent Cheryl Atkinson on Thursday to support Office Depot's donation of 1,200 bags of school supplies to students.
Reigning NASCAR champion Tony Stewart was joined by DeKalb County School District Superintendent Cheryl Atkinson and 47 students from Henderson Mill Elementary School on Wednesday as Office Depot donated 1,200 bags of school supplies to support students. "We are so incredibly appreciative of Office Depot’s generosity to our students," Atkinson said in a statement. "With more than 71 percent of our students receiving assistance for meals, school supplies are often luxuries that many families simply cannot afford. Before every race, like the one coming up this weekend, I'm certain that Mr. Stewart's pit crew stocks up on all the supplies they need to give Mr. Stewart a competitive edge so he comes out victorious. In the same manner, this …
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The Emory Lavista Parent Council will have Superintendent Cheryl Atkinson speak before the council on Sept. 19 at 9:15am.
DeKalb County schools Superintendent Cheryl Atkinson will give her second State of the System address before the Emory LaVista Parent Council next month. The address will be held at Lakeside High School on Sept. 19 at 9:15am, according to an announcement the council sent out Monday. Here's our coverage of Atkinson's last address, which was held at Henderson Middle School last year.
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6:15 pm on Tuesday, September 18, 2012
explain why she stills thinks that the only cuts necessary in DeKalb come out of the teachers. Why are we so administratively topheavy? Does the administrative office gang get furloughed, too? Tell us why you think opening the school at the most expensive time of the year here in the South makes a whit of sense? What a waste of electricity. Why is it that you are the only one who sets policy and … more ›
It was reported that one in five school buses were late on the first day of school in DeKalb County on Monday. How about you?
About one in five school buses were late Monday, the first day of public school in DeKalb County this year, according to a report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. I'm curious about the North Druid Hills-Briarcliff area. Was your child's bus late when picking up or dropping off on Monday? If so, by how much? Tell us in the comments section below.
The head of Get the Cell Out - Atlanta Chapter thanks DeKalb County residents for voting no on a referendum regarding cell phone towers on public school grounds.
Yes! You voted no! Thank you, DeKalb County voters! So far, 71,690 voters have agreed! No cell towers on our school grounds! Victory by 60 percent or more! The resolution may not have legal bearing, but it has a moral lesson that should not be ignored. And, that leads us to the next order of business: the nine approved schools that have now been reduced to eight total signed lease agreements. When will T-Mobile get the message that we do not want them to build cell towers on our school grounds? When will they exercise the "out clause" that only they can do and escape any futher financial obligation to the school system as the inability to gain a permit is a just cause for the lease termination. They wrote the lease, so they likely expected…
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2:12 pm on Saturday, August 25, 2012
So the ballot question was "written by the telcomm industry and its lobbyists" as part of a "plan to find out where the opposition might be located"...?! That would mean that Rep. Karla Drenner, who wrote the House Resolution authorizing the referendum and is a leading figure in the fight against cell towers, sought the advice of her nemeses in crafting the wording of the ballot question. Very … more ›
Cheryl Miller
11:40 am on Monday, October 15, 2012
The only schools that can exist on the state-only portion of funds are virtual schools. That is what this is really about. more ›