Article Category: School

DeKalb Schools Master Plan Could Have Seismic Impact on Tucker Cluster In a school district the size of DeKalb County, change is inevitable. With overcrowding of some schools, underutilization of others and facility maintenance needs across the board, the Board […]

Midvale Garden Gives Students New Opportunities Hands on learning is something you see in practice at schools all across the City of Tucker. In some cases, it’s happening inside the classroom. In others, students get to go outside to innovate. […]

Tucker High Program Seeks to Train Students for the Workforce America today is hampered by workforce shortages the likes of which have not been seen in generations. Whatever the reason, and there’s quite a number of factors to debate, companies […]

When it opens on August 2, the new Smoke Rise Elementary School will welcome 420 students with capacity to eventually house up to 900 students. The school shares the same model as other recently constructed DeKalb County schools including the […]

Teachers Receiving Grants, Donations is a Win-Win in the Classroom Teaching is one of the toughest professions around. Sure, there are perks. Having summers off is a nice reprieve. Being able to watch the growth and development of a young […]

Tucker High School ValedictorianBenen Chancey GPA: 4.52Future College: University of GeorgiaIntended Major: Ecology How did you become valedictorian?I had the highest GPA. Seriously, though, I never had the goal of being valedictorian, so I’m not quite sure how it happened. […]

Tucker Turns Out to Roll Up Its Sleeves Eighteen-year-old Victoria Smash is at a stage in life where her social calendar should be fairly full. Between friends and prom and all the other demands of senior year, she should be […]

On April 20, the Tucker Cluster Council (TCC) held its final meeting of the school year. During that meeting, several members of the DeKalb County School District leadership team provided updates to the group on how things are going in […]

Coaching changes are pretty rare when you’re talking about the Tucker High School football team. So, when head coach Bryan Lamar left earlier this year to pursue a new opportunity, a lot of people were interested to see who would […]

Students, Parents, Teachers Bracing for a Return to Face-to-Face Learning For months, the issue of reopening schools was very much a partisan one. As cases of coronavirus have roller coastered up, then down, then to a holiday surge, and now […]

Young Women’s Efforts Assisting People at Home and Abroad Most high schoolers are doing well to find ways to make a difference in their community. But can you imagine a young teenager making an actual impact on a global scale? […]

School Set to Open to Students for 2021-’22 Academic Year With the scientific community coalescing around the notion that in-person learning is, in fact, the best and safest option for children, students across the DeKalb County School District are headed […]