COVID-19
DeKalb County, GA — The DeKalb County School Board during its Nov. 14 meeting approved a contract for an audit of how the district spent its COVID-19 relief money. The school board awarded an $877,000 contract ...
DeKalb County, GA — Cognia, a nonprofit accreditation organization, is conducting a follow-up visit with DeKalb County Schools after its previous report found the board was not working collaboratively. In unrelated news, the school board at ...
DeKalb County, GA — DeKalb Chief Magistrate Berryl A. Anderson has appointed five new judges to the county’s magistrate court, increasing the number of judges from 24 to 29. According to Ballotpedia, Georgia magistrate courts are ...
This story has been updated. Decatur, GA — DeKalb County CEO Michael Thurmond has proposed a one-time $1,500 retention bonus for non-sworn frontline employees. The bonus will be provided to frontline employees in various departments, ...
This story has been updated. By Logan C. Ritchie, contributor DeKalb County, GA — DeKalb County School Board members in an Oct. 7 meeting described the latest student enrollment data as “alarming” and “sobering.” Out of ...
DeKalb County, GA — DeKalb County has reopened its program to provide relief to tenants and landlords impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. To date, the Tenant-Landlord Assistance Coalition (TLAC) program has distributed $52.8 million for ...
Atlanta, GA — The Georgia Department of Public Health will start to offer the new bivalent COVID-19 booster this week, as the department receives shipments of the vaccine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
Update: The CDC approved the recommendation on Sept. 1. Here is our earlier story… Atlanta, GA — On Wednesday, Aug. 31, the United States Food and Drug Administration authorized updated COVID-19 booster doses from Pfizer ...
This story has been updated. Atlanta, GA — A reader noticed that Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta had erected a surge tent at its Scottish Rite Hospital in Atlanta. A spokesperson for CHOA says the tent is ...
DeKalb County, GA — DeKalb County Schools is partnering with the Georgia Department of Public Health to offer voluntary surveillance testing to staff and students. “Surveillance testing is a safe, effective way to limit the spread ...