All of Atlanta will get a new school board member in an upcoming runoff election — that had an incredibly close second-place finish.
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Board of Education candidate Q and A: Kandis Wood Jackson
Kandis Wood Jackson is an attorney and former Atlanta Public Schools teacher. She spoke to SaportaReport via email. Campaign website Q: What’s your No. 1 concern for the students of Atlanta? Equity across the district. Although all students in Atlanta deserve high-quality public education, there are wide discrepancies in the quality of education our students […]
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Board of Education candidate Q and A: Keisha Carey
Keisha Cary works in business corporate wireless for Sprint. She spoke to SaportaReport via email. Campaign website Q: What’s your No. 1 concern for the students in District 2? A: I have several concerns for students in District 2, with one being equity. I live in Vine City and it is rather disturbing to see […]
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Runoff candidate Q and A: Atlanta Board of Education District 2
Atlanta Board of Education member Byron Amos nearly won re-election this month without a runoff. But he and challenger Keisha Carey will meet again at the ballot box in a race to represent the folks who live around Washington, Douglass, and KIPP Atlanta Collegiate.
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Runoff candidate Q and A: Atlanta Board of Education District 5
Parts of Atlanta’s west and northwest side will get a new Board of Education member in a runoff that begins soon. The two candidates say some things are going well — but it’s time to address equity and look hard at finances in the system.
Erika Mitchell and Raynard Johnson finished with 25 percent and 18 percent of the first-round vote respectively for District 5. Click to read the Q and A with each:
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Board of Education candidate Q and A: Erika Mitchell
Erika Mitchell has worked in several industries, including IT, esthetics education and pageant production. She spoke to SaportaReport via email. Campaign website Q: What’s your No. 1 concern for the students in District 5? A: The quality of their education and creating more opportunities for our students. Making sure that monies are reported and being […]
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Board of Education candidate Q and A: Raynard Johnson
Raynard Johnson has worked in the software development field for more than 30 years. Campaign website Q: What is your No. 1 concern for the students in District 5 specifically? A: My No. 1 concern is the fact that we need to have a better input at kindergarten. These kids are coming in behind in […]
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Runoff candidate Q and A: Atlanta Board of Education District 3
A runoff begins soon in an election that will see a new member join the Atlanta Public Schools Board of Education in an area that includes parts of northeast and east Atlanta. We asked the two candidates what’s going well with APS — and what needs work.
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Board of Education candidate Q & A: Adzua Agyapon
Adzua Agyapon is currently the kindergarten grade level chair at KIPP STRIVE Primary, where she coaches and leads a team of eight teachers. She spoke to SaportaReport via phone. Campaign website Q: What’s your No. 1 concern for the students in District 3 specifically? A: The No. 1 concern that I have for the students […]
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Board of Education candidate Q & A: Michelle Olympiadis
Michelle Olympiadis has been an Atlanta Public Schools parent for more than 10 years and has held governance roles throughout the Grady cluster and the system, including as Morningside Elementary PTA president. She spoke to SaportaReport via email. Campaign website Q: What’s your No. 1 concern for the students in District 3? District 3’s needs […]
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Argument over Atlanta Council seat hinges on write-ins
In an Atlanta City Council race, it looks like votes for the likes of Beyoncé and Mickey Mouse might have made a difference if they’d gone another way.
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Top Atlanta candidates face off, talk party, ethics
Just 11 days before early voting starts, runoff candidates for Atlanta’s top offices met to take questions from reporters — and each other — about ethics, party and more.
At a Thursday morning Atlanta Press Club debate in the WPBA-TV studio, mayoral candidate Mary Norwood tried to truss Keisha Lance Bottoms to scandals at a City Hall presided over by Bottoms’ ally Mayor Kasim Reed. And Bottoms pushed to link Norwood to the Republican Party. And that was less than 10 minutes into the debate. (Videos at the bottom of the page.)
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Mayoral candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms lines up support of former opponent
One of Keisha Lance Bottoms’ former competitors in the mayor’s race now says he’s endorsing her.
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Hillary in Atlanta: I’m not going anywhere except right into the middle of the debate
At least a half-hour before the doors opened at the Fox Monday night, folks lined up outside in the chill, ready to file inside and hear from Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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Atlanta election day updates — Bottoms, Norwood to mayoral runoff
It’s election day in Atlanta. We’ll be posting updates here.
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Atlanta mayoral hopefuls face off in unconventional forum
Many an improv troupe has pulled an audience member down to the stage at Dad’s Garage theater. But a week and a day before Atlanta city elections, it was nine mayoral candidates placed on the stage there to answer unconventional questions.
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Atlanta independent committees begin campaign spending
As Atlanta candidates scramble to file their financial disclosures, Georgia’s so-called “independent committees” are raising money and starting to spend it too.
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Candiate Q and A: Fulton County Commission chair
Three candidates are running for the top elected job in Fulton County, which will make one of them the chair of a body that oversees almost $1 billion in annual spending in a county that’s home to more than 1 million people
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Fulton County Commission candidate Q and A: Gabriel Sterling
Gabriel Sterling worked on Sandy Springs’ incorporation effort and was elected to its city council in 2011. He’s now looking to become Fulton County Commission chair. He spoke to SaportaReport via email. Campaign website Q: What’s your biggest concern for Fulton County? A: Out of the gate, the biggest concern is how do we protect […]
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Fulton County Commission candidate Q and A: Keisha Waites
Some answers have been condensed or lightly edited for clarity. Keisha Waites recently announced her departure from the Georgia state House, where she’s served since 2012, to run for Fulton County Commission chair. Campaign website Q: What is your biggest concern for Fulton County? A: For me as a small business owner and a property […]
