ajc.com > education
DeKalb schools considers redistricting, program changes
13+ hour, 5+ min ago —...The next five years in the DeKalb County School District will be... ...Student assignment planning aims to fix all of that.... ...said Sarita Smith, the recently hired executive director of student... ...She previously covered education for The Daytona Beach News-Journal...
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Study: Birth control pills may protect women from sprains and strains
19+ hour, 57+ min ago —...Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Cente... ...program between UT Dallas and UT Southwestern, said in a news release... ...Jenni Girtman for the AJC...
ajc.com > education
Gwinnett school board tentatively OKs budget proposal in 3-2 vote
7+ hour, 32+ min ago —...Deputy Superintendent Walt Martin spoke with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution... ...Board members Adrienne Simmons and Tarece Johnson-Morgan raised concerns... ...Josh Reyes covers Gwinnett County Public Schools for the Atlanta... ...Board member Mary Kay Murphy said the board should not be trying...
ajc.com > politics
More than 36,000 Georgians claimed “unborn dependents” to reduce income tax under new law
17+ hour, 27+ min ago —...Georgia is the only state known to have that kind of deduction.... ...The new deduction is the result of Georgia’s 2019 abortion law, which... ...Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, said, as a ballpark estimate,... ...Richard Auxier, a principal policy associate in the Washington-based...
ajc.com > things-to-do
Allman Brothers guitarist Dickey Betts dies at 80
12+ hour, 25+ min ago —...With Betts’ death at age 80, drummer Jai Johanny “Jaimoe” Johanson... ...The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer died at his home in Osprey, Florida... ...and Duane Allman, Betts, bassist Berry Oakley and drummers Johanson... ...The house is now the Allman Brothers Band Museum....
ajc.com > news > georgia-news
Fans at Allman Brothers museum in Georgia react to death of guitarist Dickey Betts
10+ hour, 17+ min ago —...MACON — In the hours after Allman Brothers Band member Dickey Betts... ...word of his passing hadn’t yet spread to tourists visiting the Big House... ...Allman Brothers Band member Chuck Leavell played a show with R.E.M... ...Betts and Berry Oakley and Jaimoe and Butch Trucks, and they created...
ajc.com > news > georgia-news
Elected when gas was 39 cents and Nixon was president, he’s still sheriff
1+ day, 30+ min ago —...Yet Henry Cullen Talton Jr. became the longest-serving sheriff in... ...He took office 20 days before Richard Nixon’s second term began,... ...He first ran for sheriff after a stint as a Houston County commissioner... ...If anyone in the United States has been a sheriff longer than Talton...
ajc.com > education
Better Business Bureau warns parents against SAT/ACT scam calls
13+ hour, 20+ min ago —...The Better Business Bureau office serving Atlanta and Northeast Georgia... ...getting ready to apply to college in the fall.... ...Understand the College Board’s practices.... ...Learn more about the College Board’s policies....
ajc.com > news > atlanta-news
Georgia added 16,200 jobs in March; jobless rate remains at record low
18+ hour, 53+ min ago —...for Georgia in 1976, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics... ...The story “starts with consistency,” said Bruce Thompson, the state... ...Turnover survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.... ...Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics Credit: Jenni Girtman...
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Cheers to love! Study suggests couples who drink together live longer
16+ hour, 14+ min ago —...Kira Birditt said to UMICH news.... ...which one drank and the other did not,” gerontologist and study author... ...Birditt said she believes there are other factors to consider about...