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Citizens Denounce APS Turnaround Strategy that Favors Developers, Private Interests

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(APN) ATLANTA — Teachers, students, parents, and community members packed the Atlanta Public School Board of Education (APS BOE) meeting on Monday, February 01, 2016 to voice opposition to Superintendent Meria Carstarphen’s recently announced school turnaround strategy.   The strategy aims to improve schools that Gov. Nathan Deal has deemed “failing,” so that they would not be subject to state […]

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Kirkwood’s Champion White Oak Unable to be Saved from Developers (UPDATE 1)

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(APN) ATLANTA — The three hundred years-old Champion White Oak was the first tree, of forty healthy trees, to be cut down last week at 145 Norwood Avenue in the eclectic Kirkwood community to make room for eleven new homes, on Thursday, October 15, 2015.   http://atlantaprogressivenews.com/2015/02/02/dekalbs-oldest-oak-tree-faces-developers-removal-request/   A miracle did not happen in time to save the Champion White […]

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