...President Clinton's first impression of Augusta's Andy Baumgartner was one that the elementary schoolteacher's friends...America could do more to honor classroom teachers like Andy Baumgartner," Mr. Clinton said. "Perhaps more of our best...

...inscription was written before Andy Baumgartner became a teacher there four...to the teacher's Oscars." Andy Baumgartner -- "I think teaching is a...be a very difficult job." Andy Baumgartner -- "When you work with children...

...stepdaughter Katherine Limer of Macon; his mother, Doris Kull Olmer, and his sister Nancy Cisick and her husband Andy Baumgartner of Augusta, GA; his sister-in-law and her husband, Jill and Keith McCrary of Albany, GA; and aunts, Pat...

On Feb. 1 your editorial asked, "Is this Cuba?" when Georgia House leaders banned Andy Baumgartner, our National Teacher of the Year, from speaking in the House. This was after this gifted teacher spoke in the Senate and made...

...spreading his philosophy on education. Augusta's Andy Baumgartner has visited places he never anticipated and as a...respectful light." Teacher travels A journal of Andy Baumgartner's travels as National Teacher of the Year will...

Here is how readers voted when asked to pick the top local news stories of 1999: TOP TEACHER: Andy Baumgartner, a kindergarten teacher at A. Brian Merry Elementary School in Richmond County, is selected as the National Teacher of the Year...

(Editor's note: The author, Andy Baumgartner of Augusta, is the National Teacher of the Year.) I AM VERY honored that The Chronicle has given me this opportunity to share...

...From the lectern of the state Senate chamber, where he was being honored as Georgia's 1999 Teacher of the Year, Andy Baumgartner complained that the study commission that helped formulate the plan didn't include enough teachers and trivialized...

...when he writes about things he feels are harmful to our school system. I too felt that National Teacher of the Year Andy Baumgartner got a little carried away with some of the points that were sincerely pressing his heart. But Mr. Baumgartner placed...

...that asked a six-member panel of educators if there is a crisis in American education. The panelists included Andy Baumgartner, National Teacher of the Year; Beverly Barnhart, principal of John S. Davidson Fine Arts Magnet School; Mildred...