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Bibb County Schools Superintendent Dan Sims delivers a presentation to the community in June 2022.

Bibb school board spares property owners from tax increase, but hard decisions lie ahead

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
July 21, 2023
Cirrus Academy employees attend the governing board meeting on July 18, 2023, in person as governing board members conducted business via Zoom.

Secret board meetings, noncompliance threaten Cirrus Academy, employees say

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
July 21, 2023
Bibb County Schools Superintendent Dan Sims, second from left, made no specific recommendations to the board regarding the millage rate.

Bibb school board weighs potential tax increase to avoid looming school closures

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
July 18, 2023
Chiquita Dinkins teaches a unit on photosynthesis to students at Northeast High School in Macon. Dinkins, who was head cheerleader at Northeast as a student in the 1980s, is one of 18 alumni teachers at the school.

6 things to know as Bibb students return to school

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
July 12, 2023
Billed as an exclusive, high-achieving public school, ACE struggles with lack of diversity, finances

Billed as an exclusive, high-achieving public school, ACE struggles with lack of diversity, finances

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
May 31, 2023
Academy for Classical Education Principal Laura Perkins, second from right, during a recent meeting of the school's governing board.

Finances in flux, future uncharted for ACE

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
May 31, 2023
Bibb County Schools Superintendent Dan Sims delivers a presentation to the community in June 2022.

Bibb Schools to dip into its reserve funds for tentatively approved 2024 budget

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
May 24, 2023
Chase Kitchen signed a letter of intent to be an intern at Middle Georgia State University through the Project SEARCH program. Chase, center, is pictured with his parents, Charles and Felisha Kitchen, and Bibb County school board member Lisa Garrett.

‘It gives him a start.’ University program helps Bibb graduates with disabilities take the next step

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
May 22, 2023
Georgia Academy for the Blind senior Daquan Brown with the 3d yearbook printed for him and other members of the Class of 2023 by Mercer University engineering students.

Mercer students continue tradition of creating 3D yearbooks for the blind

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
May 10, 2023
Heaven Upshaw-Peters, foreground, and the rest of the graduates in the Bibb County Teaching as a Profession program, during their Signing Day ceremony recently.

Program aimed at encouraging students to be teachers graduates its first class

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
May 5, 2023
Ballard Hudson Middle School students Jalexia Maloy, left, and Jayden Parker, center, collect food during their lunch period in their roles as volunteer workers in the Helping Hands Ending Hunger program.

In Bibb County, there’s a pilot program of students feeding students. It’s looking like a success

By Grant Blankenship, GPB News
April 25, 2023
Burdell-Hunt Elementary School students in 2017. The school is one of 11 Bibb elementary schools to be under-enrolled according to state rules.

Future school closures, tax increase among options weighed by Bibb County school board

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
April 23, 2023
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