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Bruce Elementary School Principal Kizzie Lott endures one of about 20 dumps of water on her head courtesy of students with good school attendance. It was one of the periodic rewards Lott gives students to incentivize them and their parents to prioritize school attendance.

Bibb schools grapple with spike in chronically absent students

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
September 21, 2023
Staff and board members of the State Charter Schools Commission visited Cirrus Academy on Aug. 23 to discuss the schools eligibility for renewal of its charter contract. The current two-year probationary charter expires in June 2024.

Cirrus Academy faces new scrutiny from State Charter Schools Commission

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
September 20, 2023
Cirrus Academy in July 2016.

Cirrus Academy works toward compliance after notice of violations from State Charter Schools Commission

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
September 14, 2023
There are also Macon residents who chose to ignore the signs. A pedestrian is shown after continuing through the roadwork in the rain. Photo credit: Angel Colquitt

Interactive map shows where pedestrians fatalities occur in Macon

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
September 14, 2023
Robert Lee Cohen, 87, takes the MTA paratransit bus to a dialysis center in east Macon three times weekly. Cohen moved to Macon from Buffalo, New York, in 2021. Here you got to have a car to get around, Cohen said. The new technology will call Cohen before the MTA bus arrives so he doesnt have to wait in the elements. It would make things easier, Cohen said of the bus tracking system.

Real-time tracking by phone, Wi-Fi coming to Macon Transit Authority buses

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
September 11, 2023
Cirrus Academy governing board members conduct a meeting Aug. 29, 2023, via Zoom as staff and members of the public are present in-person.

Violations of state charter contract threaten future of Cirrus Academy

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
September 1, 2023
A man crosses Spring Street in Macon between lights at Riverside Drive and Interstate 16 in 2020.

State plans to make one of Macon’s deadliest roads safer for pedestrians

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
August 23, 2023
Superintendent Dan Sims at a Bibb County Board of Education meeting on Aug. 18. 2023.

Bibb Schools targets truancy in aim to improve academics

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
August 21, 2023
Cirrus Academy governing board members Latrell Taylor, left, and Shirlynn Kelly attended the Aug. 8, 2023, meeting in the schools cafenasium, a space that doubles as a gym and cafeteria. The other half of the four-member board attended via Zoom.

Public input to be sought, but budget already adopted for Cirrus Academy

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
August 15, 2023
Cirrus Academy Superintendent Gail Fowler spoke at a news conference in front of the school on Pio Nono Avenue on Aug. 8, 2023. Stakeholders asked the governing board to resign hours before the board met behind closed doors to discuss personnel matters.

Cirrus Academy board and administrators at odds, future of charter school in jeopardy

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
August 10, 2023
Piedmont Macon hospital

Macon hospitals want to stop paying property taxes. County board says no.

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
August 9, 2023
Two bulldozers operating in front of a major interstate expansion project

GDOT: ‘No final completion date’ for I-16/I-75 interchange expansion

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
August 4, 2023
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