Atlanta High School District receives Marks and Scholarship Funds

Newsweek Ranks Atlanta North High School in Top 2%

Newsweek ranks twenty-seven thousand schools across the country and North Atlanta High School, part of the Atlanta School District, ranks among the top 2%. Newsweek created a list of the best high school and gives the list at the end of each school year. This year North Atlanta High School was ranked 531 of the 27,000 schools rank. These rankings are on the use of the high schools "and providesof Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate courses. Advanced Placement classes are college courses. The International Baccalaureate uses an internationally recognized course curriculum.

North Atlanta High School offers and encourages students to take and to pursue Advanced Placement courses or International Baccalaureate classes. North Atlanta High School also operates International Studies and Performing Arts magnet school programs. TheInternational Studies magnet program offers courses that their own languages, communication and social studies focus courses. The International Studies magnet program offers students opportunities to take part in youth foreign exchanges and internships to take in international business. The Performing Arts magnet program stresses high academic achievement with performance art education.

Mays High School teacher receives award

A Mays High School, a high school inDistrict Atlanta schools, teachers receive the Close Up Foundation's Linda Myers Chosen Award for excellence in teaching civic education. Hajj Womack received a plaque and a thousand dollars. Mr. Womack was a social studies teacher, with the Close Up Foundation's Linda Myers Chosen Award for Teaching Excellence in Civic Education while in Washington DC with the students participating in the Close Up Washington program. Civic education is a prerequisite forStudents, because young people often feel disconnected from politics in America.

Douglass High School Atlanta School District receives grant funds from Magic Johnson

Former NBA player Magic Johnson visited Douglass High School on the nationwide tour of AIDS. He spoke to the students about safe sex, the value of education and their future. He gave the school twenty thousand U.S. dollars for college scholarships for high school graduates. Twenty students received $ 1,000Scholarships under the Vision's Douglass High School of the Future Awards. The students were honored: Bianca Barnswell Talesha Noble, Lawrence Boddie Jihan Pankey, Mychael Bond Andrea Parks, Seron Fields Louis Perrino, Ramia Finley Shatila Platt, Aamir Fard Adrienne Richardson, Mavia Hanson Anthony Rogers, Yareli Hernandez Catrina Searcy, Kadayas Howard Delisa Stevens Kenya Merritt Paul White. Magic Johnson gave the students advice that they should continue their educationin the university or their own business. Johnson about his own work as a businessman after retiring from basketball. He also gave out Los Angeles Lakers jerseys to eight students in the audience. The jerseys bore Johnson's own number and current Lakers players.