The Paulding County Board of Education has adopted a budget for next school year that funds a range of critical initiatives, including retaini…
ATLANTA – Georgia’s need-based, low-interest student-loan program has a high default rate that serves to limit its success, a new state audit …
ATLANTA – The University System of Georgia is doing everything it can to prevent the spread of COVID-19 short of imposing a mask mandate, the …
ATLANTA – Georgia elementary and secondary students scored slightly lower on end-of-course tests last spring, a trend state Department of Educ…
Madelyn “Maddie” Broome and Gwendolyn “Gwen” Douglas, Alexander High School’s valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively, recently closed ou…
Kayla Anderson and Ty Foley, Hiram High School’s valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively, recently closed out their high school years ami…
When Evan Sterling received his CompTIA Security + Professional Certification from the Paulding College & Career Academy April 28, he not …
The Paulding County School District announced it has named Steve Barnette the interim superintendent effective June 1.
Paulding County School District Superintendent Brian Otott is retiring after 31 years.
Georgia officials did not do enough to keep children and teachers safe in opening school buildings during the COVID-19 pandemic, a teachers’ g…
The Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning has named Paulding teacher Alderine Healey its private center Georgia Pre-K Teacher of the Y…
Paulding County High School will be moving to a hybrid schedule beginning Wednesday, Sept. 9.
A photo of a crowded school hallway during class change has drawn national criticism of how schools are keeping students and staff safe during…
Georgia school officials released guidelines Monday on how to reopen the state’s public schools for the 2020-21 school year amid the coronavir…
State/Regional
Nine metro Atlanta high school seniors in the Neighbor Newspapers’ coverage area were among the 56 Georgia students receiving $2,500 college s…
Twenty-two metro Atlanta students in the Neighbor Newspapers’ coverage area were among the over 2,500 recipients of $2,500 scholarships in the…
A new tuition-free, K-8 public charter school will open in August in Lithia Springs.
Paulding residents will have the opportunity to learn about local Civil War history through a new partnership between two learning institutes.
The county’s two school systems and area pastors are teaming up to emphasize the need for young students to get enough sleep to succeed in school.
Bartow County School Board Chairman Fred Kittle praised the recent choice of Superintendent Phillip Page as the Bartow Neighbor’s 2019 Newsmak…
Bartow and Paulding schools were among 130 Georgia public schools whose students showed “greatest gains” on student assessments compared to th…
A South Carolina college administrator will serve as the next president of the University of West Georgia in Carrollton.
Santa Claus visits Clear Creek kindergarteners
Kindergarten classes at Clear Creek Elementary School in Cartersville recently hosted their annual Polar Express Day for their young students,…
School systems statewide are learning about a Bartow County program using community volunteers that is helping first graders significantly inc…
Euharlee Elementary School teachers closely followed each student’s progress in meeting reading and math goals and collaborated on strategies …
More than 75 students from a dozen area high schools came together to show off what they’ve learned and gain a chance to move onto state compe…
One school each in the Cartersville City and Bartow and Paulding counties’ systems were honored for performance or improvement as Title I scho…