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Bibb County’s school lunch delivery schedule

Bibb County is delivering school lunches to students’ neighborhoods while the community deals with the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation. Find the delivery schedule below.

Classroom of teenage students during class.
Education

School disinvestment a chronic problem in Georgia and around the nation

Georgia school’s have been chronically underfunded since 2002, and only in the 2019 fiscal year were schools finally properly funded. As of last year, some school districts still had to furlough teachers because of the impacts of years of budget cuts. A new report from the Center for American Progress shows that public disinvestment in schools has been part of a national trend since at least the 2007 recession in many states under Republican control.

Education

Shame and lies have no place in sex ed curriculums

Parents and former students of the Gwinnett County school system are fighting back against their district’s “abstinence-only” sex ed curriculum due to the material’s inappropriate content and lack of information about contraception. The curriculum, called “Choosing The Best,” is the same awful curriculum students from Monroe County’s sole public high school fought last year. In both Monroe and Gwinnett counties, “crisis pregnancy centers” are tasked with teaching the sex ed curriculum. Crisis pregnancy centers are

Education

Gov. Nathan Deal’s education failures

Gov. Nathan Deal has a legacy of failed education policies, from slashing billions of dollars in public school funding to pushing his for-profit corporate school agenda. So what makes his school takeover proposal any different? The short answer: nothing. On Election Day, November 8, an important ballot measure — officially called the “Opportunity School District” constitutional amendment — will be before voters. It’s a measure designed to strip local control from schools that the governor’s

Better Georgia

Superintendent Richard Woods fires Jeremy Spencer

Because of your action, Superintendent Richard Woods backed off of his original statement that it would take two weeks to investigate. Instead, he did the right thing by taking swift action and letting Georgians know that hate speech will not be tolerated.

Together, we made Richard Woods feel the pressure on this important issue and take immediate action.