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Atlanta Board Of Education
The Atlanta Board of Education is the governing body of Atlanta Public Schools. The board has nine members: six are elected by geographical districts and three are elected citywide. All serve four-year terms. While the board establishes and approves policies that govern the school system, the day-to-day administration of the school district is the responsibility of the Superintendent, who is appointed by the board. Members * Katie Howard (District 1) * Arreta L. Baldon (District 2) * Ken Zeff (District 3) * Jennifer McDonald (District 4 and Vice Chair) * Erika Y. Mitchell (District 5 and Board Chair) * Tolton Pace (District 6) * Alfred “Shivy” Brooks (at-large, Seat 7) * Cynthia Briscoe Brown (at-large, Seat 8) * Jessica Johnson (at-large, Seat 9) Compensation Board members are paid an annual salary of $22,500 ($24,500 for the Chair and $23,500 for the Vice Chair). Compensation increased to $22,500 ($24,500 for the Chair and $23,500 for the Vice Chair) on January 1, 2022. No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlanta Public Schools
Atlanta Public Schools (APS) is a school district based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It is run by the Atlanta Board of Education with Superintendent Dr. Bryan Johnson. The system has an active enrollment of 54,956 students, attending a total of 103 school sites: 50 elementary schools (three of which operate on a year-round calendar), 15 middle schools, 21 high schools, four single-gender academies and 13 charter schools. The school system also supports two alternative schools for middle and/or high school students, two community schools, and an adult learning center. The school system owns the license for, but does not operate, the radio station WABE-FM 90.1 (the National Public Radio affiliate) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) public television station WABE-TV 30. History Before 1900 On November 26, 1869, the Atlanta City Council passed an ordinance establishing the Atlanta Public Schools. On January 31, 1872, the first three grammar schools for white ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leland James O'Callaghan
Leland James O'Callaghan (June 17, 1915 – January 22, 1997) was an American businessman and politician from Georgia. He was an important civic leader, businessman, and political leader from Atlanta. Early life O'Callaghan was born on June 17, 1915, in Atlanta, Georgia. He attended the Atlanta public schools, and in 1937, graduated from Georgia Tech. He served in the Air Force during World War II where he rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He later served as a Colonel in the Georgia Air National Guard. In 1946, he founded the Dealers Supply Co., which he served as president. He was elected to the Atlanta Board of Education as a representative of the 5th Ward in 1957. In 1959, he was president of the Atlanta Board of Education for two years, which was caught in the turmoil of school integration at the time. During the Massive Resistance, in contrast to fellow Southerners, he resisted pressure to close the schools and insisted they remain open. Despite the backlash from hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Mays
Benjamin Elijah Mays (August 1, 1894 – March 28, 1984) was an American Baptist minister and American rights leader who is credited with laying the intellectual foundations of the American civil rights movement. Mays taught and mentored many influential activists, including Martin Luther King Jr, Julian Bond, Maynard Jackson, and Donn Clendenon, among others. His rhetoric and intellectual pursuits focused on Black self-determination. Mays' commitment to social justice through nonviolence and civil resistance were cultivated from his youth through the lessons imbibed from his parents and eldest sister. The peak of his public influence coincided with his nearly three-decade tenure as the sixth president of Morehouse College, a historically black institution of higher learning, in Atlanta, Georgia. Mays was born in the Jim Crow South on a repurposed cotton plantation to freed sharecroppers. He traveled North to attend Bates College and the University of Chicago from where he be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morehouse College
Morehouse College is a Private college, private, Historically black colleges and universities, historically black, Men's colleges in the United States, men's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Anchored by its main campus of near downtown Atlanta, the college has a variety of residential dorms and academic buildings east of Ashview Heights. Along with Spelman College, Clark Atlanta University, and the Morehouse School of Medicine, the college is a member of the Atlanta University Center consortium. Founded by William J. White (journalist), William Jefferson White in 1867 in response to Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution#Adoption, the liberation of enslaved African Americans following the American Civil War, Morehouse stressed preparatory and religious instruction in the Baptist tradition for students who had been prevented from receiving education by former slave laws. Growth in the late 19th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene Mitchell
Eugene Muse Mitchell (October 13, 1866 – June 17, 1944) was an American lawyer, politician, and historian. He served as the President of the Atlanta Board of Education from 1911 to 1912, during which time he eliminated the use of corporal punishment in city schools. He owned a law firm in Atlanta, and was a co-founder of the Atlanta Historical Society. He was married to the prominent Catholic activist and suffragist Maybelle Stephens Mitchell and was the father of Margaret Mitchell, who wrote the novel ''Gone With the Wind''. Family background and early life Mitchell was from a prominent Georgia family descended from Thomas Mitchell, a colonial land surveyor originally from Aberdeenshire in Scotland who settled in Wilkes County in 1777 and served in the American Revolutionary War. His great-grandfather, William Mitchell, was born in Edgefield County, South Carolina and owned a farm near Flat Rock. His grandfather, Issac Green Mitchell, farmed in Flat Rock before selling his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
