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Standout Student – Zac Lavender

Student Profile: Zac Lavender, Senior North Springs Charter High School Zac Lavender’s musical influences include his father, music teachers at North Springs Charter High School and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson…

Standout Student – Gillian Phillips

Student Profile: Gillian Phillips, 17, Senior North Springs Charter High School Gillian Phillips has always loved animals. At home, she has four dogs, three cats, six lizards, three hamsters, a…

Woodward principal reaches out to differing communities

By Jody Steinberg Curriculum Night made a successful debut at Woodward Elementary last week, heralding a renewed focus on outreach to two communities: the immigrant community of students and their…

Renovations slowly underway

The renovation of Cross Keys High School, which has suffered untold delays and setbacks, and reportedly began Aug. 1, seems to be behind schedule already. While officials report that construction…

Career Tech at Cross Keys: Beating the Odds Against Dropouts

By Jody Steinberg This year, at least 30 percent of Hispanic students in Georgia did not graduate high school with their classmates. Cross Keys High School is hoping that an…

Cross Keys enrollment up

By Jody Steinberg Cross Keys High School students returned from summer break last week to a different campus than they left. While there are still no signs of the improvements…

Standout Student – Carlton Washington

Student Profile: Carlton Washington, 17 Senior, Cross Keys High School Even at a young age, Carlton Washington had an interest in engineering. “I used to like to take stuff apart,”…

Lewis launches parental initiative

DeKalb County Schools Superintendent Crawford Lewis announced plans in July to improve parental involvement throughout the school system. The new Parental Involvement Framework came from the work of a task…

One parking lot is expanded, while another is postponed

Two public elementary schools on opposite sides of Murphey Candler Lake entered the summer with plans for parking lot construction projects, but only one of them will start the school…

Athletic amenities on hold while Holy Spirit waits for court case

By Amy Wenk amywenk@reporternewspapers.net The proposed sports complex that shook the city late last summer remains on hold. Holy Spirit Preparatory School on Long Island Drive in Sandy Springs will…