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Celebrating the Best of the Year
Brockett Elementary Idlewood Elementary Livsey Elementary Midvale Elementary Smoke Rise Elementary Tucker Middle School Tucker High School
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Very Distinguished – Local School Honored as Top Performer
Livsey Elementary School added two feathers to its cap last month when they received two recognition awards from the Georgia Department of Education for being a top performing Title I school. The Distinguished Schools honor is awarded to Title I […]
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Scientific Tools and Techniques
Hands-On Experience Program at Fernbank The DeKalb County School District has multiple ways to find rigor in student learning while also making it fun. Many schools are STEM or STEAM certified, magnets for high achievers, language immersion or International Baccalaureate […]
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DeKalb Board of Education Update from Allyson Gevertz
The biggest news for the 2023-24 school year is the arrival of our new leader, Superintendent Devon Horton. He started the job on July 1st and has hit the ground running! Dr. Horton’s background is teaching and learning, so he is […]
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2023 Valedictorian and Three Salutatorian
Congratulations to the Class of 2023 Valedictorian and Three Salutatorians
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Growing the Next Generation
Building a Community Through Gardening Gardening has long been a way to build community. From sharing tips to physically planting together, there are many opportunities for individuals to work as a group to create and maintain a garden. Tucker’s residents […]
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Tucker Alumni Return Home to Offer Support to Students
As Tucker High School students slowly filled up the auditorium, THS graduate, former UGA football player and NFL player Jonathan Ledbetter overheard kids’ conversations. As they were looking in their gift bags, the kids said that “they gave us soap […]
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National School Breakfast Week
March 6 – 10 One of the lesser-known celebrations in March is National School Breakfast Week. This is a five-weekday event to recognize the importance of breakfast in schools. It’s also a great time for us to look at the […]
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Tucker Middle School STEM
All About the Application Process Tucker Middle School became Georgia’s first STEM-certified middle school in 2014. In the time since the program’s inception, Tucker Middle’s STEM students and teachers have won awards from the Technology Association of Georgia and made […]
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Tucker Athletes Look Towards the NCAA
School student athletes around the nation are striving, jumping through hoops, and putting in blood, sweat and tears to earn an athletic scholarship for college. There are nearly eight million high school athletes in the nation, and only about 490,000 […]
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Tucker News Network
Two students sit at a table in a brightly lit room. There is a green screen behind them, and they take turns reading text off a teleprompter. Another student sits nearby operating the teleprompter. Behind a glass window, two more […]
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On the Rise
Principal takes Smoke Rise to New Heights Principal Pamela McCloud’s office door is open. This is not unusual for her. “She has an open-door policy not only to us, but to anybody that wants to come through that door,” says […]
