Beverly Hall, the former superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools (APS), and 34 others have been indicted by a Fulton County grand jury looking into the APS cheating scandal.
Continue reading...According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the DeKalb County School Board, in its first meeting staffed by six new members, voted unanimously to remove the school district as a plaintiff in a lawsuit filed against the state by the six board members ousted by the governor.
Continue reading...The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that a federal court has refused to prevent the replacement of six DeKalb County school board members who lost their seats over a threatened loss of accreditation, and now Governor Nathan Deal must find appointees to mend the torn district.
Continue reading...According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal has announced that he is removing all six incumbent members of the DeKalb School Board.
Continue reading...On November 28, 2012, NSBA, along with three other education organizations, filed an amici curiae brief in Long v. Murray County School District, now before the Eleventh Circuit, to assist the appellate court in its review of the decision by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, as to whether it “correctly concluded, relying on Davis v. Monroe Cnty. Bd. of Educ., that [the parents of a special education student] had not presented evidence of ‘deliberate indifference’ required to establish a peer-on-peer harassment claim” under Section 504 or the ADA.
Continue reading...In a press release, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Henry County School District have entered into a settlement agreement to ensure that all students in the district are able to enroll in school, regardless of national origin or immigration status.
Continue reading...The Athens Banner-Herald reports that a lawsuit filed in state court charges that Governor Nathan Deal and other state officials have deliberately misled voters with ballot language describing a proposed constitutional amendment.
Continue reading...The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Gwinnett County Superior Court Judge K. Dawson Jackson on Thursday denied an injunction request against Gwinnett County Public Schools and the Georgia School Boards Association, both of which had been accused of campaigning against the charter schools amendment on taxpayer time.
Continue reading...The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled that a taxpayer was not entitled to a court order requiring a school district to return “excess proceeds” collected pursuant to an educational sales and use tax approved by referendum.
Continue reading...In a suit that has received national attention, the ATLAW Daily Report says a federal judge in Rome, Georgia, has determined that a high school student who hanged himself in 2009 likely was subjected to severe and pervasive bullying throughout his high school career, but that the school system had responded effectively every time school administrators were alerted that the teen had been bullied.
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