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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

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Cobb County restores some school bus stops Atlanta Journal Constitution

Almost all the “adjustments” to be made will count in elementary school routes, he said.

“We listened to parents,” Dillon said. “We heard many eulogistic suggestions.”

He said the transportation staff investigated every suggestion, sometimes meeting with homeowners and neighborhood associations.

Parents responded forcefully last week when the Cobb system released a outline to cut 11,000 of the district’s 50,000 bus stops. Some 78,000 of Cobb’s 106,000 students use public kindergarten buses.

Dillon said the district’s transportation staff revised the plan, including adjusting the detachment criteria. Stops for elementary students will be as little as a quarter of a mile from schools. Stops for middle and high junior high school students will be as close as a half mile from campuses.

Dillon said the new plan must offer more efficiency for the quarter’s transportation system but also must be safe for students waiting on the roadside.