Purpose Built Schools Atlanta recently partnered with Metro RESA to support 12 selected instructional staff members for the first PBSA STEM Cohort, a unique group of educators, across various disciplines and grade levels.
Slater Elementary School and Price Middle School were removed from the list this year; Carver STEAM exited the list in December 2022 and remains off. Improved academic performance was among the criteria that led to this achievement.
In 1998, I began my journey as an elementary teacher under the tutelage of my aunt and revered educator, Marva N. Collins. My mother was also a teacher, so I saw firsthand what it meant…
One of the greatest challenges schools and districts face is low parent engagement. Often, the assumption is that parents don’t make time to engage with their child’s learning community or do not care about their…
Condoleezza Rice said, “If I can look at your zip code and I can tell whether you’re going to get a good education, we’ve got a real problem.” This sentiment is central to everything we…
AT&T recently donated 250 refurbished laptops to Atlanta students and families as part of the company’s nationwide commitment to help bridge the digital divide. The laptops, funded by an AT&T donation to Compudopt, will be…
[envira-gallery-slider id=”3218″] A unique project based learning experience recently took approximately a dozen 10th graders from the halls of Carver STEAM Academy to the salt marshes of Jekyll Island. The scholars enjoyed an overnight trip…
“Bad food is cheap and cheap food is bad.” That is the mantra of Carolyn Pusey-Wade, Director of Nutrition, Purpose Built Schools Atlanta, more affectionately known as Chef Nana. Since she started in SY 2022-23,…
“I am a bold future leader, a confident reader, and a limitless believer.” Everyone at Slater Elementary begins their day saying these powerful words. The Georgia Department of Education (GADOE) recently recognized Slater among 155…
Imagine not only waking up to a pandemic, forced into an isolated space without the physical and emotional support you need for learning, but also discovering that the place you call home has been deemed…
Atlanta Public Schools partners with Purpose Built Schools Atlanta, a nonprofit organization with extensive expertise in turnaround education, to operate three traditional APS schools in south Atlanta: Slater Elementary School, Price Middle School, and Carver STEAM Academy.
Partner schools are not charter schools. We are traditional APS public schools. Every student who lives in our attendance zone can enroll in our schools. All of our students are APS students and count toward APS’ enrollment goals.
PBSA receives per-pupil funding from APS at the district’s average rate—just as if our schools were operated directly by APS. Without PBSA, the district would still be responsible for investing the same dollars to educate these same students in these same schools.