Davis: 'We have comprehensive safety and security plans in place'
In a letter to Atlanta Public Schools students, parents, employees, and supporters, Superintendent Erroll B. Davis, Jr., writes, "Our students deserve schools that are free of safety and security threats."
Editor's Note: In response to this past Friday's massacre at a Connecticut elementary school, Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Erroll B. Davis, Jr., posted the following letter Monday morning at the APS website. Monday, December 17, 2012 Dear APS students, parents, employees, and supporters, This past Friday, December 14, our country experienced one of the most horrific crimes imaginable. Twenty children and seven adults were killed by a gunman who terrorized an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. We are deeply saddened by the tragedy, and on behalf of the APS community, I would like to express our most sincere condolences to the families whose lives have been changed forever. Whenever a national tragedy occurs, our children …
Virginia Culpepper
2:54 pm on Tuesday, February 21, 2012
I might compare Mr. Davis to President Obama in that he has taken the reins at very difficult time. With APS just coming out of the cheating scandal and the fiscal inequity and distrust it created now faces a redistricting that will undoubtedly leave some very unhappy people in it's aftermath. There is no easy answer and absolutely no way to make everyone happy. I have been to several meetings … more ›