http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:36:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/10/15/georgia-schools-high-on-list-of-dropout-factories/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/10/15/georgia-schools-high-on-list-of-dropout-factories/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:33:22 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=26140 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/10/15/georgia-schools-high-on-list-of-dropout-factories/feed/ 4 More than one-third of the state's high schools have graduation rates below 60 percent. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/04/28/stimulus-funds-for-education-heading-to-georgia/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/04/28/stimulus-funds-for-education-heading-to-georgia/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:18:56 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=19060 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/04/28/stimulus-funds-for-education-heading-to-georgia/feed/ 1 Obamabucks aim to offset or avoid teacher layoffs http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/02/03/state-budget-cuts-threaten-gsus-storied-past-as-group-sex-mecca/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/02/03/state-budget-cuts-threaten-gsus-storied-past-as-group-sex-mecca/#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:08:26 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=14022 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/02/03/state-budget-cuts-threaten-gsus-storied-past-as-group-sex-mecca/feed/ 2 Pecanne Log says school has struggled to catch up with UGA. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/01/13/eggs-and-issues-breakfast-with-perdue-cagle-richardson/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/01/13/eggs-and-issues-breakfast-with-perdue-cagle-richardson/#comments Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:03:13 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=12439 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/01/13/eggs-and-issues-breakfast-with-perdue-cagle-richardson/feed/ 1 Transportation, education and taxes are the big issues — but everything hinges on the nearly $2 billion budget. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/10/06/clayton-county-schools-gain-accreditation/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/10/06/clayton-county-schools-gain-accreditation/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:40:10 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=6969 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/10/06/clayton-county-schools-gain-accreditation/feed/ 0 It’s not the same accreditation recently stripped from the 58,000-student school system by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, but Clayton officials say the seal of approval from the Georgia Accrediting Commission may help students get accepted to public and private colleges and universities in the state. Full release after the jump. From a schools system [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/18/morning-headlines-137/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/18/morning-headlines-137/#comments Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:05:35 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/18/morning-headlines-137/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/18/morning-headlines-137/feed/ 1 THE VISIBLE HAND: Smugness is growing abroad over the global free-market champion — especially under such an anti-regulation Republican administration — essentially nationalizing private corporations to combat its sputtering economy. PAIN IN THE BANK: Top central banks of the world unite to infuse $247 billion into money markets in an attempt to stave off a global [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/11/morning-headlines-132/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/11/morning-headlines-132/#comments Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:52:00 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/11/morning-headlines-132/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/11/morning-headlines-132/feed/ 0 BUSH: Secretly ordered the recent covert military strike in Pakistan, according to the NY Times, a major detachment from the usual U.S. tactic of using unmanned Predator spy planes to fire at suspected al-Qaeda targets in the country. MCCAIN: Leads Obama by 18 points in Georgia. HURRICANE IKE: Barreling toward Houston and Galveston, expected to be a [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/clayton-county-schools-accreditation-mess-the-document-dump/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/clayton-county-schools-accreditation-mess-the-document-dump/#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:14:14 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/clayton-county-schools-accreditation-mess-the-document-dump/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/clayton-county-schools-accreditation-mess-the-document-dump/feed/ 0 If Clayton County Schools wants to regain its accreditation status, it’ll have to jump through a lot of hoops. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the accrediting agency that stripped the system of its status this morning, released several documents related to the decision. I’m posting them below. The first is a 20-page report [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/clayton-county-schools-lose-accreditation/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/clayton-county-schools-lose-accreditation/#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:56:32 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/clayton-county-schools-lose-accreditation/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/clayton-county-schools-lose-accreditation/feed/ 2 UPDATE: We normally don’t correct quoted sources, but I’ve done such to the copy below because of Todd’s comment. Says the AJC’s Megan Matteucci: The 50,000-student school system is the first in the nation to lose accreditation since 1969, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools announced today. … Qualifying Clayton students will still be able to get their [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/31/morning-headlines-105/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/31/morning-headlines-105/#comments Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:47:14 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/31/morning-headlines-105/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/31/morning-headlines-105/feed/ 0 WELL-TO-DO: Former Loafer Alyssa Abkowitz writes in the WSJ how affluent Atlantans such as Tyler Perry and Tom Glavine are getting around watering restrictions by installing wells. MATTER OF PRINCIPAL: Cobb County school board members say they hadn’t heard a middle school principal was under investigation for sexual harassment when they promoted him to principal of [...]