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Opinion: Why Georgia needs a modernized school funding formula
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Opinion: Georgia needs a modern approach to school funding
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (279+ words) In August 2023, the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education unveiled EdQuest Georgia 2033. At that time, the Georgia Partnership and a coalition of nonprofit and education leaders released a 10-year research framework and the first of several, two-year state policy plans…...
Opinion: Georgia’s school funding formula changes are long overdue
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (258+ words) Two governors (Nathan Deal and Sonny Perdue) have tried to "fix" the Quality Basic Education Act " the formula used to determine funding for public school students and schools in Georgia " but without success. Four years ago, state senators attempted the…...
Opinion: Raise your hand if you really want to be a school leader
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (1038+ words) Opinion: Raise your hand if you really want to be a school leader'AJC.com The latest e-newsletter of the Horace Mann League includes a listing of "The Major Issues that Research Shows Public-school Superintendents Face on a Daily Basis." I'll…...
Inside a marketing expert’s rise to the C-suite of a top Atlanta hotel firm
6+ day, 15+ hour ago (815+ words) Heather Balsley's first job was working as a poultry butcher at a farmer's market....
AI is on the rise. Georgia college students say their anxiety is too.
1+ week, 8+ hour ago (739+ words) Soon after beginning their college experience at Georgia Tech this fall, computer science majors were greeted with a sobering presentation. "By time you graduate, the jobs you were promised through a computer science degree will no longer be available," Parv…...
As APS expands AP classes, more students are earning college credit
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1164+ words) Krista Sanders" Advanced Placement Calculus students at Atlanta"s Mays High School have their eyes set on a big graph displayed at the front of the classroom. Sanders has drawn a line on the graph that has two slopes. She…...
Inside the final AJC Sunday paper as it comes off the press
1+ week, 1+ day ago (216+ words) Inside the final AJC Sunday paper as it comes off the press'AJC.com Inside the final AJC Sunday paper as it comes off the press Step inside the printing press as the AJC prints its final Sunday newspaper before transitioning…...
How remote work and culture clashes broke the office etiquette rulebook
1+ week, 3+ day ago (148+ words) How remote work and culture clashes broke the office etiquette rulebook'AJC.com How remote work and culture clashes broke the office etiquette rulebook Remote work didn't kill office culture " it just made it weird. The lines of workplace etiquette have…...
Opinion: One student’s 47-mile commute shows how Atlanta fails its people
1+ week, 3+ day ago (494+ words) If you asked a hundred Atlantans what they dislike most about this city, most would say traffic. It's the first thing people complain about online, in passing conversations, even in the small talk before meetings. And they're not wrong. Atlanta's…...