I didn’t.  But I’ve seen a couple reports on Twitter of Atlanta folk who said they felt it.

Decatur Environmental Sustainability Board Member KC Boyce recently asked about question facing his Board on Twitter…

#DecaturGA is working on ordinance updates (for 2012-13). What do you think about #green building requirements for new development?

From a look at the Sustainability Board’s agenda over the past couple months, it looks like this has been an ongoing conversation about whether the ESB should pursue an interim policy for consideration by the City Commission.

As for the other question that Mr. Boyce raised on Twitter a couple of months ago, “Should #DecaturGA ban or tax plastic bags and/or disposable take-out containers?”, and a subsequent Board survey, the Board’s meeting minutes it sounds like they’ve decided to pursue an educational campaign to reduce plastic and other non-reusable bags instead of an outright ban.

Caption contest anyone?

CSD sent out this release yesterday…

Decatur, GA (2011)- City Schools of Decatur is proud to announce highlights from some of the state-required assessments during the 2010-2011 school year. Students’ achievements certainly stem from their hard work and meaningful family involvement in their education. In addition, a systemic teacher quality initiative has been intentionally implemented over the last two years that seems to correlate to increased student achievement. This initiative has included an implementation of a rigorous teacher evaluation system called CLASS: CLassroom Analysis of State Standards.

Reading scores on the CRCT have rated among the highest in Georgia. Renfroe Middle School had the highest mean CRCT score in the state of Georgia in 8th grade, the second highest in 7th grade, and the 3rd highest in 6th grade.

Science scores were particularly high at three levels: 8th graders had the second highest mean score in the state while 3rd graders and 6th graders had the third highest mean scores in the state of Georgia. In addition, 99% of students at Decatur High School passed the science portion of the Georgia High School Graduation Test.

Math has been an area of focus for City Schools of Decatur during the 2010-2011 school year. Results were strong at Decatur High School where 78% of Math II students passed the End of Course Test in 2010-2011 compared to 60% in 2009-2010.

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