Community Engagement Session

Please come to the Community Engagement Session (details below). The session will be conducted by the Georgia School Boards Association (GSBA). This interactive process is how you can have input into the strategic plan that DCSS will develop. Even if you can't make it right at 6pm, please come late as the interactive sessions won't begin until later in the evening. This is a very important meeting to attend - please come!

Community Engagement Session

Tuesday, September 20, 2011, 6pm-9pm

The Administrative and Instructional Complex (AIC)

1701 Mountain Industrial Blvd.

Stone Mountain, GA 30083

Please RSVP by calling 678.676.0023 or email research@fc.dekalb.k12.ga.us

After the meeting there will be an online survey available for more input from the community.

In the news

Click here for an interesting article from the American Enterprise Institute regarding the education departments in colleges and universities, how they grade and implications on job performance evaluations.

Congratulations

The Dunwoody Debate team took top honors at a recent national competition. Click here to read the details.

Saving you money

Congratulations to the DCSS Purchasing Department! They have been recognized by he U.S. Communities Government Purchasing Alliance with the U.S. Communities Merit Award of Appreciation. Here's a tidbit from the recognition that was read at the last Board meeting:

"The DeKalb County School District Purchasing Department, with its five staff members, has the fewest staff to student ratio in the Metropolitan Atlanta area and has one of the fewest staff to student ratios in the entire United States for the K-12 public school sector. For the fiscal year 2011, the cost savings from innovative initiatives such as the U.S. Communities Government Purchasing Alliance, combined with rebates received from the P-Card program and leveraged rebates from various other vendor programs have returned to the district enough to cover the entire cost of salaries and benefits for all five of the Purchasing Department staff members."

Thank you for your hard work!

--Nancy