EDUCATION BRIEFS

Duda|Paine Architects have completed the new Emory University Student Center project. The 130,000-square-foot facility includes spaces for dining, multipurpose rooms for events and gatherings and socializing. The historic Alumni Memorial University Center and its marble façade are preserved and integrated into the new design.

Recent studies show that teachers spend an average of $564/year of their own money on school supplies for their classroom, even though the pay gap between teachers and other professionals is now the largest on record. To help alleviate this burden, Georgia-Pacific’s paper towel brand Sparkle teamed up with The Kids in Need Foundation and Dollar General for a new initiative – Operation: Stock the Classroom – to provide more than $450,000 in cash and in-kind product donations over the next three years to recognize and support deserving teachers and their students. The initiative will help provide free school supplies, such as paper towels, to classrooms across the country and students most in need. Barack and Michelle Obama Academy second grade teacher Johneita Cohens was selected from hundreds of applicants as one of the initiative’s Featured Teachers and will be rewarded with a school supplies for the 20192020 year.

Atlanta Public Schools (APS) has launched a new online customer service tool called Let’s Talk! The tool is designed to make it easier for the public to connect and engage with APS, ask questions, offer feedback, or share ideas. Let’s Talk! can be accessed through the district’s website at atlantapublicschools.us or through the APS Mobile App using a smartphone, tablet or other mobile device. Download the APS mobile app from the Google or Apple store. Users can access topic areas, including transportation, safety and security, school nutrition, facilities, Go Teams, individual schools, special education, human resources, Board of Education, general inquiries and much more.

Addison Jurin Dascher was awarded the 2019 Joseph P. Reed Alumni Scholarship by the Lakeside High School Foundation. The award includes $1000 to be used at the college or university of her choice. The scholarship ¬– named in honor of a former Lakeside principal – is given annually and recognizes a graduating student who has excelled in academic and extracurricular activities and has served the Lakeside community.