Board cuts transportation for Jessye Norman students

Because of budget constraints, the Richmond County School System will alter an 11-year-old agreement with the Jessye Norman School of the Arts and no longer bus students home from the after-school ...
By Tracey McManus

Monday, June 17, 2013

Charter schools group makes pitch

Officials with the Georgia Charter Schools Association visited Augusta Monday to give their pitch as to why residents should be open to the concept of charter schools and what they can do to help ...
By Tracey McManus

Desegregation suit could end

Both sides of the Richmond County school desegregation federal lawsuit told a judge Monday that they believe the goals of equal educational opportunties have been met.
By Sandy Hodson

Saturday, June 15, 2013

Georgia, Augusta lag in college degrees

While the number of adults graduating from college is on the rise in Georgia, the sluggish pace leaves the state 32nd in the country for those who have completed degrees beyond high school.
By Tracey McManus

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

School district to consider free-meals program

Richmond County schools Controller Gene Spires said there are technical problems that must be resolved before signing on to a federal program that would offer free breakfast and lunch to all of ...
By Tracey McManus

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Proposed school budget calls for cutting 135 jobs

The Richmond County school system could resort to eliminating teachers, custodians and other employees to help make up a $23 million shortfall in next year's budget.
By Tracey McManus

Columbia County school board OKs tax increase

The Columbia County school board voted 4-1 to approve a $177 million budget that includes a tax increase.

Sunday, June 9, 2013

Desegregation order's fate to be determined

With a stroke of his gavel, U.S. District Court Judge Dudley H. Bowen Jr. could put an end to a chapter that has defined the Richmond County school system for almost 50 years. 
By Tracey McManus

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Protesters seek principal's dismissal

A Copeland Elementary School parent led a protest on the eighth block of Broad Street Thursday into the Richmond County Board of Education offices, where he delivered Superintendent Frank Roberson ...
By Tracey McManus

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

PTA leader wants name cleared

Richmond County Council of PTAs President Monique Braswell on Tuesday called for the "accountability, censorship or immediate removal" of the organization's state president along with an apology ...
By Tracey McManus

School desegregation case may end

In an uncommon judicial move, Senior U.S. District Court Judge Dudley H. Bowen Jr. has ordered the attorneys and the parties involved to attend a hearing in the Augusta federal courthouse on June ...
By Sandy Hodson

Monday, June 3, 2013

School transportation manager charged with DUI, pot possession

Janet Blue-Freeman was arrested early Sunday morning and charged with a DUI and possession of less than an ounce of marijuana.
By Tracey McManus

Saturday, June 1, 2013

School system forced to make heavy cuts

To make up for state funding losses, Superintendent Frank Roberson told all principals to cut 7 percent from their schools' budgets.
By Tracey McManus

Friday, May 31, 2013

Sheriff meets with crossing guards

Sheriff Richard Roundtree had agreed to meet with the school crossing guards after they voiced concerns about new reductions being made to their paid holidays, but he stood firm on the decision.
By Susan McCord

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Evans teen eliminated in bee semifinals

Regional spelling bee champ Rachael Cundey, in her fifth and final trip to the Scripps National Spelling Bee, was eliminated in the semifinal rounds Thursday.
By Barry L. Paschal

Longtime Richmond County school official retires

About 100 colleagues on Thursday celebrated the career of Virginia Bradshaw, who served as the assistant superintendent of instruction, a position she held for the past 17 years.
By Tracey McManus

2 high school seniors awarded Merit Scholarships

Golda Minhy Nguyen of John S. Davidson Fine Arts Magnet School and Andrea N. Esselman of South Aiken High were awarded college-sponsored Merit Scholarships.
By Tracey McManus

GRU students experience real world in foreign trips

Students can spend their college careers learning about the world in a classroom, but Alan MacTaggert wants to teach them much more than that.
By Lisa Kaylor

About 1 in 3 Ga. charter schools outscored districts

ATLANTA — Roughly one out of every three schools chartered by the state scored better in Georgia's new ranking than the districts those schools are located in, the State Charter Schools ...
By Walter C. Jones

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Evans speller advances at bee

Forty-one youngsters, including the Augusta area's Rachael Cundey, have advanced to the semifinals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
By Joseph White
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Commission extends Heery contract

Augusta commissioners approved Tuesday a discounted two-year extension of sales tax manager Heery International's contract to oversee a handful of city construction projects.
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