Rose French

Nearly one in five buildings owned by the Fulton County school district, including 12 schools, are in “below average” condition or worse, according to a new study commissioned by the school system.

More than 13,000 Cobb County students took the new Preliminary SAT, scoring better than state and national averages on the standardized test.

Cobb County schools officials have cancelled all activities for students after 6 p.m. Tuesday due to possible hazardous road conditions.

Fulton County schools in “below average” condition or worse are slated for replacement or renovation in a plan proposed by school district leaders.

Fulton County schools had one of the highest rates of disorderly conduct and fights among students in the 2014-15 school year in metro Atlanta, according to Georgia Department of Education.

Education Special Purpose Local Option Sales Taxes – E-SPLOSTs — have been a critical source of money to build and renovate schools since Georgia voters legalized the self-imposed, local penny sales tax 20 years ago.

1. 7 accused of running prostitution business. Seven people were arrested after Dunwoody police busted an alleged high-end escort service conducted in an apartment across the street from the police station. After months of surveillance, police raided the business off Perimeter Center East on Dec. 29. [Read here] 

Former Cobb County school superintendent Michael Hinojosa, who resigned last year to take a job as an educational consultant in Texas, has been appointed interim superintendent of the Dallas Independent School District.

The Fulton County school board has approved Asa Hilliard Elementary School as the name for the school under construction in East Point.

The Cobb County School Board Thursday voted to terminate the contract of a special education teacher accused of putting a second-grader with autism in a trash can.