Article Category: School

  • Coming Home

    Coming Home

    DeKalb Native Brings Experience, Big Ideas to New Role at Idlewood Elementary The new school year always brings new school supplies, new friends and, for one Tucker Cluster School, it brought a new principal. Idlewood Elementary School welcomed Ms. Robin […]

  • Remembering Jim McMahan

    Remembering Jim McMahan

    Longtime DeKalb County School Board member Jim McMahan died last month in an accident at the age of 53. The death of McMahan, who represented an area which includes the Tucker Cluster schools, made the news because of his position […]

  • Smoke Rise Rising

    Smoke Rise Rising

    This summer marks a huge milestone for a project three years in the making. Contractors for the DeKalb County School District are expected to break ground in the next couple of months on a new, state-of-the-art elementary school to replace […]

  • Prioritizing Safety

    Prioritizing Safety

    Tucker Students to be Safer In and Around Schools This Fall Students and teachers in Tucker’s seven cluster schools are out for the summer, but at the schools themselves, there is a lot of important work going on to enhance […]

  • Planting Seeds for Success

    Planting Seeds for Success

    Tucker Students Get Out of the Classroom and Into the Garden It’s a sunny Tuesday afternoon and Sophie Johnson and her friends are making the most of it. Grabbing a notepad, the second-grader sketches some hostas she’s planted in the […]

  • Looking on the Bright Side

    Looking on the Bright Side

    James Hartry owes everything he has to basketball. Don’t believe it? The proof is right there in his family tree. “Trace the Hartrys out of Milledgeville. Five brothers, all five of us went to school on basketball scholarships,” he recounts. […]

  • Excellence on Tap

    Excellence on Tap

    Schools Partner with Tucker Brewing Company for Student Achievement It’s Valentine’s Day at Tucker Brewing Company and several well-dressed men have come out in search of love. But despite their best efforts, these guys won’t have a say in which […]

  • Library Love

    Library Love

    February is recognized as National Library Lover’s Month. In past generations, the school library was seen as a place for bookworms to dig through a card catalog or silver screen delinquents to spend a Saturday detention. Today, the school library […]

  • Revenge of the Nerds

    Revenge of the Nerds

    Tucker Middle School Club Makes it Cool to be a Nerd Walk through the second-floor hallway of Tucker Middle School at 4:30 on any given Monday afternoon and you’ll hear a buzz. As you get closer to Room A202, that […]

  • Get Your Build On! Tucker Teens Giving Back Through Habitat

    Get Your Build On! Tucker Teens Giving Back Through Habitat

    Over the years, Habitat for Humanity has become a familiar concept. A family in need applies for a home repair, renovation or brand-new construction. If they are accepted, they will stand shoulder-to-shoulder with volunteers working on their own home. They’ll […]

  • Tucker Schools Welcome Two New Principals

    Tucker Schools Welcome Two New Principals

    Midvale Elementary – Tara Dougherty Dr. Dougherty was elevated from Assistant Principal at Midvale this summer following the departure of Principal Debbie Satterfield. “As principal, it is my goal to foster an environment that encourages the social, emotional, and academic […]

  • Tucker High Shines on National Signing Day

    Tucker High Shines on National Signing Day

    Tucker High School’s football team earned accolades throughout the 2017 season, but perhaps the proudest moment for Coach Bryan Lamar and his staff came well after the season was over. The February 7 National Signing Day saw 17 Tiger players […]