The graduation rate for DeKalb County School District (DCSD) is less than the state average. Overall, 57.28 percent of the district’s 2012 graduation class of 8,204 students graduated within four years of entering high school as a freshman, according to the 2012 four-year cohort graduation rates released May 21 by the Georgia Department of Education. [...]

More than 1,000 children from various metro Atlanta daycare centers converged at Hallford Stadium May 9 for the seventh annual Kiddie Olympics. Children participated in the 20-yard dash, tug of war, sack race, pogo ball race, and bounce house events. It was all a plan “to allow kids to get more fit, to bring awareness [...]

“We already tried it and it worked. We tried in the stairwell,” Justin said. And he was correct. The egg survived a one-story drop inside the East Lake YMCA gym May 9. “The egg is surrounded by a box and the box was surrounded by socks,” said Justin, 10, a fifth-grader at Drew Charter School [...]

Former Lithonia High School basketball coach Barry Browner was fired after a “physical altercation” with another teacher a month after a YouTube video surfaced of him and his students doing the “Harlem Shake” in a classroom. According to a report describing the incident, on April17 Browner and Delmonte Madison, a prevention and intervention specialist at [...]

  Can you eat better than a middle schooler? That was the challenge some students at Sequoyah Middle School recently undertook. As part of National Nutrition Month in March, Sequoyah Middle students in Kevin Keeler’s health class participated in a program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to encourage students to eat healthier. [...]

  The top finance man for the DeKalb County School District resigned May 7, a day after announcing millions in discovered school funds. Michael Perrone resigned his position as chief financial officer after the district discovered what interim Superintendent Mike Thurmond called “undocumented” funds. When asked whether there was a connection between Perrone’s resignation and [...]

  DeKalb County School District (DCSD) interim Superintendent Michael Thurmond said the district’s opportunities are “limitless” in a new 90-day plan released April 30. Thurmond, who has been superintendent of the more than 90,000-student district for little more than three months, said DCSD will learn from its past mistakes but not dwell on them. “The [...]