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Jan 23, 2013 at 8:06 AM
DeKalb School Board members have called two meetings for Wednesday to deal with a number of issues, including those that put the district's accreditation on probation.
Jan 8, 2013 at 9:58 PM

DEKALB COUNTY, GA - A funeral at a Lilburn church marked the passing of Cointa Moody on Tuesday.

According to the medical examiner, the former school system employee died of natural causes.

Now there's a question about...
Jan 7, 2013 at 7:37 AM

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. -- DeKalb County students are still on holiday break Monday, but the school board is at work, with their first meeting of the new year Monday night.

Four new board members will be sworn in Monday afternoon to join...
Jan 3, 2013 at 11:34 AM

DUNWOODY, Ga. -- At just about any time of the day at Dunwoody Elementary School, you'll find parents involved in helping with education needs.

"In the classroom, volunteering reading to the kids, things like that," said Tessa...
Jan 2, 2013 at 2:26 PM

ATLANTA-- One DeKalb County high school sophomore's frustration prompted her to launch a petition asking the governor to remove all the school board members.  It appears hundreds agree with her.

Grace McKenna launched her petition...
Dec 19, 2012 at 12:15 PM

DECATUR, Ga. -- DeKalb County Schools were put on probation this week by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, but they won't be the only ones looking into the school board.

The board is accused of mismanaging money and...
Dec 17, 2012 at 9:17 PM

DECATUR, Ga. -- The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools has placed DeKalb County Schools on probation through 2013.

The accrediting agency held a news conference at noon Monday following an intense investigation.

MORE...
Dec 5, 2012 at 3:43 PM

DEKALB COUNTY -- MeadowView Elementary is a tiny school in South DeKalb which may not be around much longer. It's on a list of schools DeKalb wants to close, a disquieting plan in these parts.

"I really like the school. I like the...
Nov 15, 2012 at 2:32 AM

DECATUR, Ga. -- The DeKalb County School district has released the forensic accounting and investigative audit requested by Superintendent Cheryl Atkinson.

The draft of the report by the firm KPMG, LLC is now available on the...
Nov 14, 2012 at 7:05 AM

ATLANTA -- Every day, Georgia school buses transport more than a million students, with two of the largest fleets in the country operating right here in the Atlanta area. So we wondered, "How safe are your children when they step on a school...
Nov 13, 2012 at 12:28 PM
Four reigning state champions and 34 other DeKalb basketball teams begin their 2012-13 basketball seasons this week as they look toward state playoff berths in February.
Nov 12, 2012 at 11:21 AM
We conducted Open Records searches to get a handle on driver safety. We discovered that school bus drivers, like the rest of us, are not immune to getting tickets.
Nov 1, 2012 at 6:03 AM

DECATUR, Ga. -- Four DeKalb County middle and high schools are among this year's Georgia Department of Education Reward Schools.
Reward Schools are the Georgia schools with the highest performance or biggest academic gains by students in...
Oct 17, 2012 at 10:01 AM

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga.  -- DeKalb County Schools are coming under fresh scrutiny, as a SACS accrediting team just arrived to investigate how the district operates.

RELATED | DeKalb Schools respond to SACS criticism

MORE | SACS to...
Oct 9, 2012 at 8:22 AM

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. -- The DeKalb County Board of Education has voted to adopt a balanced calendar for the 2013-14 school year.

The board made its decision after receiving feedback from more than 12,000 members of the community,...