Month: July 2012

CSD Sends Out “Important” Transportation Info Prior to 1st Day of School

CSD sent out this note earlier today…

Important Information from the Transportation Department

General Information

  • Please check the district Transportation website  http://www.csdecatur.net/transportation/ for bus route schedules, procedures and information.
  • Bus News Flashes are updated from the field and are located on the District website http://www.csdecatur.net under News> Bus Updates or you may follow @CSDBusUpdates on Twitter.  Delays will be posted when buses are running at least 15 minutes late.
  • Buses will have the school’s mascot displayed in the window.
  • CSD will provide floating adult monitors who will ride a different bus each day.
  • Students will have bus tags.  They will be paper at first and then more durable tags will be issued.
  • Students may have water bottles on the buses.

Expectations

  • Please expect delays the first two weeks.  Thank you for your patience as schools, drivers and students learn the new routines.
  • Requests for route changes must be made via email to Simone Elder [email protected] .
  • Route changes will be made the week of August 20th, if necessary.
  • Contact your child’s school first for any transportation concerns.  Schools will have staff on duty for one hour after the school day ends to handle bus challenges.
  • Parents may not ride the school bus with their child unless they are a chaperone on a field trip

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2012 Decatur Craft Beer Festival Logo Revealed

Tim points out that the 2012 Decatur Craft Beer Festival logo is up on their website.  And here it is!

Ponce City Market at Sunset Rendering

Many of the Ponce City Market renderings too date have looked like something you could only enter on your Xbox.  Which I suppose is why I found this new, dramatic, sunset rendering so lovely and interesting.

And what’s all that stuff on the various roofs?  A golf course?  Chicken coops?  A merry-go-round?

Rendering courtesy of Silverman Construction

T-SPLOST Vote / Election Day Open Thread

After years of debate, the big day is finally here. Use this thread to report polling location lines, describe T-SPLOST-invoked fist fights, or to describe your symbolic walk along the Clifton Corridor line this morning.  According to more real news sources, early voting turnout has been abnormally high.

The T-SPLOST question is worded thusly for DeKalb County residents…

Provides for local transportation projects to create jobs and reduce traffic congestion with citizen oversight.

Shall DeKalb County’s transportation system and the transportation network in this region and the state be improved by providing for a 1 percent special district transportation sales and use tax for the purpose of transportation projects and programs for a period of ten years?

To see your personalized ballot before you vote and check on your voting location, click here.

 

Decatur Enrollment Up 10% From Last Year

CBS Atlanta 46

Last week, CBSAtlanta ran a piece on City Schools of Decatur’s growing enrollment.  And Patch reports that as of today, 3,584 students are enrolled for the coming school year.  Now breakdown by year has been given yet, but that total number of students is only 46 below the “aggressive” projection provided by the enrollment committee earlier this year.

In the CBSAtlanta video, Dr. Edwards says that she’ll soon be speaking with the city to see what can be done to accommodate enrollment in the coming years.