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Judge tells Georgia governor to hold off on DeKalb school board changes

A federal judge is temporarily preventing Georgia's governor from replacing DeKalb County school board members who were recommended for suspension by the state Board of Education.

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2013-02-24/judge-tells-georgia-governor-hold-d
Ground game key in Ga. charter school fight

...or deny applications for independent school charters. A potential operator that is denied can appeal to the Georgia Board of Education, a body of gubernatorial appointees.The constitutional change would allow the state to establish a separate...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/elections/georgia-elections/georgia
Across Georgia

State school officials delay vote on boardATLANTA --- The Georgia Board of Education delayed its vote on whether to remove members of the troubled Atlanta school board and recommended keeping the Coffee County school...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2011-07-26/across-georgia
Ga. board holds hearing on seclusion, restraint

ATLANTA - The Georgia Board of Education heard from dozens of people today lined up to support a proposed statewide ban on solitary confinement in schools. The public...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2010-06-09/ga-board-holds-hearing-seclu
District part of probe on cheating

...year's Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests.Kathleen Mathers, executive director of the agency, told Georgia Board of Education members Wednesday that 80 educators are being investigated. The number of school districts could increase as...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/education/2010-07-07/district-part-probe-cheat
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Ga. school board to give $19 million to failing schools

ATLANTA - The Georgia Board of Education is distributing $19.6 million in federal grants to help turn around 16 failing high schools.The grants will go to schools...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/education/2010-06-25/ga-school-board-give-19-m
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Board should rethink restraint proposal

...ban on seclusion, restraint" (May 13): I have read and reread this article and tried to make sense of the Georgia Board of Education and the logic behind this consideration.As I indicated in previous letters to The Chronicle, I am not an educator...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/letters/2010-05-21/board-should-rethink-res
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Georgia briefs

School board eyes ban on seclusion, restraintATLANTA --- The Georgia Board of Education is considering banning solitary confinement in schools and limiting the use of restraint to calm misbehaving students, which would...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2010-05-12/georgia-briefs
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Across the area

...said. 2 struggling schools can change courses Two struggling Augusta schools won approval Thursday from the Georgia Board of Education to switch their curricula. Jenkins-White, an elementary school, and Murphey Middle, both charter schools...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/09/11/met_547760.shtml
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Across Georgia

...startup funding grant of $400,000 from the Georgia Board of Education. On Wednesday, the board's Charter Schools...Cayana Collier-Good, an administrator with the Georgia Board of Education. "The state just kept sending letters explaining...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/08/13/met_544257.shtml
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