MAY 11 - 24, 2018 • VOL. 10 — NO. 10
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► Coalition forms to address affordable housing on Buford Highway PAGE 14 ► Opioid epidemic summit explores solutions PAGE 20
Lynwood Park community comes home to celebrate history
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BIA school gets failing grades in state review BY EVELYN ANDREWS AND DYANA BAGBY
PHOTO BY DYANA BAGBY
The Miller Grove High School marching band from Lithonia brought their energy and music to the 40th anniversary of the Lynwood Park Community Day on May 5. Lynwood Park once had an elementary and high school on the grounds and students there were the first to desegregate DeKalb schools in the late 1960s. Read story page 15.►
STANDOUT STUDENT Collecting video games for kids in hospitals
I have always wanted to be part of a new theater in Atlanta and I was ecstatic to be able to help form an original season with a brand-new company.
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OUT & ABOUT Sky-high fun returns for ‘Good Neighbor Day’ at PDK
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New public safety building to be built along Greenway BY DYANA BAGBY dyanabagby@reporternewspapers.net
Brookhaven’s new $12 million public safety facility including the police department and municipal court will be located on the Peachtree Creek Greenway. The decision was announced at the May 8 City Council meeting following a unanimous vote to award an $800,000 contract to Rosser International, an Atlanta-based architecture and engineering
SHULER HENSLEY Associate Artistic Director of the new City Springs Theatre Company Page 4
After years of missteps during the founding of Brookhaven Innovation Academy, the school has received failing scores from a state oversight commission, ranking lower than all but one DeKalb County public school in the city. The school also recently has experienced administrative turnover and a teacher walkout over complaints about operations. “We are actively working to improve academic and financial performance to not only be on track for a renewed charter contract, but to also remain on track towards our goal of setting the standard for how all children should be educated,” said Adam Caskey, the BIA board chair, in a written statement. The state public charter school was founded in 2015 by Brookhaven leaders, but was unable to find a building in the city. It is temporarily located in Norcross and plans to permanently move to
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