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Deal, Mike Rowe team up to plug Ga.’s skills gap

Gov. Nathan Deal wants to end the skilled trades gap in Georgia's industries. His solution is Go Build Georgia, an initiative to educate students on the value of learning a trade and in the long run, provide better opportunities for employers to hire an educated workforce. Go Build Georgia will address the state's skilled labor shortage through public outreach and education, according to a news release from the Governor's Office. "This initiative ... will open ...

January 17, 2012 | Dallas Duncan | Local


Gainesville City Schools board to consider new vision for education

The Gainesville City Schools Board of Education will be asked to officially approve a new vision for education at tonight's meeting, Superintendent Merrianne Dyer said.

January 17, 2012 | Dallas Duncan | Local


Fair Street community breaks ground on new school

It's time for the mighty Tigers of Fair Street School to roar again. With demolition set for Jan. 26 and the completion date some time next December, the school is ready to come back home, Principal William Campbell said. Dozens of students, faculty, alumni and community members turned out this morning to watch members of the Gainesville school board break ground on the new Fair Street International Baccalaureate World School. "Today marks the end and the ...

January 16, 2012 | Dallas Duncan | Local


Gainesville to break ground on new Fair Street School

Today acknowledges the life and mission of Martin Luther King Jr. For Gainesville City Schools, however, today marks another event: a new chapter in the history of Fair Street School. School board officials are set to break ground on the new school this morning. "The Board of Education wanted to have it on the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service as a symbolic gesture to the pioneers of education for black children in Gainesville ...

January 16, 2012 | Dallas Duncan | Local


Black community reflects on educational past, present

Gainesville's black community is tight-knit, active and vibrant. Its residents remember shows at Roxy Theater, mom-and-pop stores, doctors making house calls, and most of all, its schools. Now the primary vestige of that is an empty brick building, patiently waiting for Jan. 26, when the old Fair Street School will be torn down to make way for new chapters in the history book. "I look at Fair Street as being the centerpiece for the Newtown ...

January 15, 2012 | Dallas Duncan | Local


Brenau launches initiative to get Steinway pianos

When Brenau University music majors take the stage next year, they'll be playing Mozart and Bach on world famous pianos.

January 14, 2012 | Dallas Duncan | Local


3 area schools snag extra federal money

Fourteen area schools were designated Georgia Title I Distinguished Schools by the state Department of Education on Thursday.

January 13, 2012 | Dallas Duncan | Local


North Hall Middle takes a trip back in time

There was not a time in history where Jacques Cousteau, Marilyn Monroe, Cleopatra and Gen. George Patton were all under one roof.

January 12, 2012 | Dallas Duncan | Local


Brenau’s Early College program receives nod from SACS

Brenau's Early College program continues to move forward, furthered by its recent recognition by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.

January 11, 2012 | Dallas Duncan | Local


Johnson High students learn how to solve crimes with physics, biology

Ninth-grade students in the Johnson International Scholars Academy got a crash course in forensics Wednesday, successfully solving a kidnapping.

January 11, 2012 | Dallas Duncan | Local


Board of Regents OKs college merger plan

ATLANTA - It was standing room only at Tuesday's Board of Regents meeting as students, faculty and administrators from eight University System of Georgia institutions waited with bated breath to find out the fate of their universities.

January 11, 2012 | Dallas Duncan | Local


Woman forms tennis team for at-risk youth

Chris Slate wants to serve those who got backhanded during their lifetimes. She's creating the first-ever US Tennis Association team for at-risk youths. "This could be your ticket to college you might not ever have," said Slate, president of Southern Realty and member of the Board of Directors District 2 for both USTA-Georgia and Northeast Georgia Tennis Association. The 12 team members - six boys and six girls - are going to be hand-picked over ...

January 10, 2012 | Dallas Duncan | Local


Hall high schools may adopt modified 7-period schedule

Seventh period at Hall County high schools could be undergoing some changes for the 2012 school year, board officials announced Monday.

January 10, 2012 | Dallas Duncan | Local


Riverbend Elementary may add tuition-based Pre-K

Officials at Riverbend Elementary School want to extend their Advanced Scholars Academy to pre-kindergarten students.

January 09, 2012 | Dallas Duncan | Local


A healthy goal: Keep kids moving

As standardized tests have become the norm in schools, so has holding fewer physical education classes in favor of more class time.

January 07, 2012 | Dallas Duncan | Local


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