Gatorade today announced聽Caleb Downs聽of聽Mill Creek High School聽is the聽2022-23 Gatorade Georgia Football Player of the Year- the first Gatorade Georgia Football Player of the Year to be chosen from Mill Creek High School in Gwinnett County.聽聽聽The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on […]
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Grayson football coach resigns to take head coaching job at Lowndes
Grayson head football coach Adam Carter resigned Tuesday morning to become head football coach at Lowndes County Schools. Carter has spent the last four seasons with the Grayson Rams with a 45-9 record, winning the Class AAAAAAA state championship in the 2020 season and making the 2021 semifinals and quarterfinals in 2019 and 2022. Before […]
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Gwinnett County BOE to provide a $1,000 payment to all active, benefit-eligible employees
At its last board meeting of the year, the Gwinnett County Board of Education approved a one-time payment of $1,000 to all active benefits-eligible employees to be paid in a lump sum and included in the December 2022 paycheck. This move comes after other school board members, and the superintendent indicated their support for GCPS […]
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Gwinnett BOE appoints new leaders
At its regularly scheduled business meeting on December 15, 2022, the Gwinnett County Board of Education approved the appointment of a new Chief Financial Officer, Executive Director of Leadership Development, and principal at Shiloh Elementary School. Masana L. Mailliard, the new chief financial officer, comes to Gwinnett County Schools from Dekalb County Schools, where she worked […]
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Gwinnett County Schools Superintendent resigns from Cognia Board of Directors
After outrage from parents, Gwinnett County Public Schools Superintendent Calvin Watts quit his position on the Board of Directors of Cognia. Cognia, the school’s system accrediting agency.聽Cognia is an Alpharetta-based nonprofit organization, and most of Georgia鈥檚 public school systems are accredited by Cognia. Each year, school districts pay tens of thousands of dollars to voluntarily […]
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Paul Duke STEM High School educator honored at National Communication Association Convention
Halie Waddell Rios, an ESOL educator at Paul Duke STEM High School in Norcross, was recognized with the Marcella E. Oberle Award for Outstanding Teaching in Grades K-12 at the National Communication Association’s (NCA)聽108th Annual Convention in New Orleans. NCA honors the best in scholarly communication, presenting awards for outstanding scholarship, teaching, and professional service. […]
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Blair Not Seeking Reelection to Gwinnett County Schools Board
In a surprise move, Gwinnett County School Board Chair, Everton Blair, Jr. will not seek reelection in 2022. Blair, a Democrat, was the first Black person elected to Gwinnett County School board in 2018 Blair, joined the board at the time when he was the youngest member. Since then, two other Democratic members of color […]
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Gwinnett County Commissioners to hold hearings later this month on tax rates
The Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners will hold three public hearings later this month on the county鈥檚 millage rate. While the current millage rate of 6.95 is not expected to change, the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners will consider the current rate. 鈥淔rom engaging programs for our seniors to our libraries, our roads, and transit […]
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Georgia mom goes viral for voicing opinions on America鈥檚 racist past
On Sunday, a Georgia mom went viral for a video after speaking out in the public comment section of a school board meeting. The video, which has amassed nearly 400,000 views, shows the mom speaking out at a Gwinnett County Public Schools Meeting in Suwanee, Georgia. Melanie Moore, depicted in the video, has a fourth-grader […]
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Gwinnett County Public Schools appoints three principals
Two of Gwinnett County鈥檚 elementary schools will be receiving new principals, while the North Metro Academy of Performing Arts will keep its current principal. On Thursday night, the Gwinnett County Board of Education accepted the designations of Joe Sanfilippo as the new principal of Pharr Elementary School, Monica Ball as the new principal of Graves […]
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Gwinnett County Public School Chair condemns limiting discussions on race
Gwinnett County Public School Board Chair Everton Blair expressed his dismay about dialogue about critical race theory and the passing of resolutions to limit discussion on race in a statement on Facebook early Friday morning.