[This is a Letter to the Editor by Melissa O’Brien] There’s a referendum on this November’s ballot to extend the Cobb Education SPLOST (Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax. This…
By Rebecca Gaunt Cobb County Board of Education Chairman Randy Scamihorn is being criticized by parents for phone conversations in which he states that kids are “pretty-well immune to [COVID],”…
The Southern Poverty Law Center distributed a statement critical of the Cobb County School District’s (CCSD) failure to follow CDC recommendations on protocols for slowing the spread of COVID-19 among…
Students and parents concerned about the racist legacy of Joseph E. Wheeler High School in Marietta exercised complete control over the public comment section of Cobb’s Board of Education monthly…
Cobb County has cut the number of advance voting sites in the January 5 runoff, from the eleven sites that were open for advance voting in the November general election,…
by Karen Jacobsen, Tufts University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Immigration has become a defining issue in the 2024 elections and a major challenge in…
by Erica Frankenberg, Penn State, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Brown vs. Board of Education, the pivotal Supreme Court decision that made school segregation unconstitutional,…
This article by Lauren Peace and Jack Prator, Tampa Bay Times, first appeared in KFF Health News, republished with permission. Lauren Peace, Tampa Bay Times and Jack Prator, Tampa Bay…
by Raquel Aldana, University of California, Davis, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] The fire-related deaths of at least 39 migrants in a detention facility in…
by Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder [This article first appeared in the Georgia Recorder, republished with permission] March 13, 2023 Republican Gov. Brian Kemp’s gang crackdown legislation is on track to…