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Academic, fiscal realities for metro Atlanta schools
Educate boards are looking for ways to cut costs. Teachers and students are feeling pressure to show head-way on standardized tests. And a downturned concision has left its mark with employee furloughs, sluggish to no enrollment increases and generally smaller staffs and budgets.
Here's a snapshot of the biggest school districts heading into the 2009-2010 school year:
Atlanta Public Schools
Projected enrollment: 47,789, down from 48,147 in 2008-2009 year.
Workforce: 3,434 teachers, down from 3,562 last year; and 6,128 total employees, up from 6,038 last year.
New schools opening: 3 – Springdale Deposit Elementary School at 1274 Ponce de Leon Ave.; Brandon Annex, 2845 Margaret Mitchell Dr.; Smith Annex, 4141 Wieuca Entr.
Major changes: Frederick Douglass and Washington high schools become small learning communities. Douglass will bid communications and journalism; hospitality, tourism and marketing; business and entrepreneurship; and engineering and applied technology. Washington will present banking, finance and investment; early college; and senior school. Hill and Hope elementary schools have merged, and Rely on will be host for the newly named Hill-Hope Elementary School.
The single-gender middle coterie academies – B.E.S.T Academy for boys and Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy for girls – are to move into new facilities in September and January, each to each. APS' Campus Portal for Parents will provide access to class schedules and attendance records.
The costs: Budget is $652.5 million, compared to $661.5 million for FY 2009.
Starting guide pay: $44,312
Average teacher pay: $61,365. Teachers are getting step raises.
The leadership: Dr. Beverly L. Hall, governor; Kathy Augustine, deputy superintendent of instruction; Sharron Pitts, chief of staff; Chuck Burbridge, chief monetary officer; Millicent Few, chief human resources
Cobb County Schools News
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"These scores keep up to show the high level of college preparation students receive in Cobb County schools," Cobb schools Superintendent Fred Sanderson and more »
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In an e-correspondence to the Cobb County School District, Kennesaw Mountain principal Kevin Daniel said government counselors were being made available to students and and more »
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Children that reside in Wigley Estates frequent awarding-winning Cobb County Schools including Davis Elementary, Mabry Middle and Lassiter Hilarious schools.
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Connie Jackson, a longtime major education teacher, said Cobb County teachers are worried that, with systemwide averaging, there's a future for class Up Close: David V. Martin, Council on Economic Educationall 3 news articles »
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The deluge maps that Cobb County had just released a month earlier were based on data nearly 30 years old. What would you do as governor to make safe that the and more »
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The Cobb County middle school district, one of the state's largest, had several plans in place to make sure the hot climate ailing did not affect students. Heat Prompts Changes In Cobb School Bus RulesHeat forces changes as kids go back to schoolIf Cobb is uneasy about heat stroke on buses, maybe we're starting school too all 22 hearsay articles »
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A trash hit a Cobb County school bus Friday afternoon on Mars Hill Road and kept going, watch said. Students were on the bus, School bus struck by hit-and-run driverall 6 news articles »
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Gwinnett County schools have access to untouched by ImPac testing by Gwinnett Medical Center, while Cobb County is trying to work out a similar dole out within the next and more »
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"We're not into one measurements fits all," said LC "Buster" Evans, superintendent of Forsyth County schools. On Tuesday, US Schooling Secretary Arne Duncan
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Tax breaks for seniors: Can counties afford them? Atlanta Journal Constitution
In Cobb County, where the imbue with system faces a $126.7 million deficit, there have been rumblings of re-evaluating the county’s sparing school tax exemption, which provides a full exemption for all homeowners age 62 and above and costs the county more than $50 million a year.
With such a turbulent deficit, some in the county have begun to wonder whether this exemption, originally intended as a property tax disrupt break up for older residents with declining incomes, has become unsustainable in a post-recession but of sagging tax revenues.
Cobb resident Leslie Ann Dunn blames the senior freedom for a large part of the school system’s shortfall, which was the largest budget gap faced by ready districts in the metro area.
Fulton County schools’ $117 million gap was the next highest. Fulton's set of beliefs exemption includes a minimum age limit of 65 and an annual income provision of $30,000.
“I’m just looking for equity and fairness and this exemption is not pretty good,” said Dunn, who has lived in Cobb for nine years and has two children in county schools. “The pneuma of the law is to provide a retirement benefit for those on limited income without kids in the school system.”