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A HELPING HAND: ESOL teacher Joe Osborne helps students in the adult education center every day to learn necessary skills to obtain jobs and have better lives by improving their English fluency. Students learn necessary phrases homebuyers will encounter.
District addresses gap in adult education, strives for literacy recovery
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To help aid the selection of the next permanent superintendent of the district, the Atlanta Board of Education has formed a community panel of more than 15 parents, teachers, students and community leaders.
Community advisory panel formed to advise district superintendent selection
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Ban on right turns on red prompts mixed community feedback
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The Georgia Student Finance Commission collaborated with 49 Georgia colleges to waive application fees in March. This removed barriers for Midtown students who were previously unable to apply to certain colleges.
Georgia Colleges waive application fees, remove barriers
April 15, 2024
As part of a land swap deal with the Atlanta Botanical Gardens, a new Public Storage building is being constructed on Monroe Drive near the Eastside BeltLine Trail entrance, a street away from Midtown, with its previous location on Piedmont Avenue.
New storage center set for development on BeltLine
April 13, 2024

Review: Girls swim team wins APS title, boys come in second

Archie Kinnane
February 8, 2013

Junior Lia Pett was glad she didn’t cut her fingernails before the APS City Championship swim meet on Jan. 28; in the 200-yard individual medley, Pett beat North Atlanta’s Morgan Gomez by one-hundredth of a second to win first place.

Pett’s microscopic victory margin was microcosmic of a city championship that went swimmingly for the Knights. The girls swim team won first, with 485 team points to second-place North Atlanta’s 429. Teams are awarded points based on how their members place in each event, with more points awarded for better finishes. Every team member scored points. The boys team finished second to North Atlanta. The Warriors also squeezed by the Knights for first place overall, with 948 points to Grady’s 915.

Melissa Brown won the 50-yard freestyle with a meet record. Brown also won the 100-yard butterfly. On the boys side, Justin Cucchi won two events: the 200-yard individual medley and the 100-yard back-stroke. No boys swam a fast enough time to qualify for state.

Several members of the girls team qualified for the state tournament. Juniors Sally Cummings and Pett, sophomores Sloan Hodges, Jesse Hume and Catherine Hume and freshman Melissa Brown competed at the state tournament on Feb. 7. Brown finished seventh in the state in the 50-yard freestyle.
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