Schools

School Board Candidates Forum Oct. 14 for Jackson, Grady Clusters

GRANT PARK — The Southeast Atlanta Communities for Schools and the Council of Intown Neighborhoods and Schools are co-hosting a school board candidates forum Oct. 14 at 6 p.m. at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, 545 Hill St. SE.

SEACS represents the communities with schools in the Jackson Cluster. Those schools include:

  • ANCS
  • Benteen Elementary
  • Burgess-Peterson Academy
  • Coan Middle
  • D.H. Stanton Elementary
  • Drew Charter
  • Dunbar Elementary
  • King Middle
  • Maynard Jackson High
  • Parkside Elementary
  • Toomer Elementary
  • Wesley International Academy
  • Whitefoord Elementary

CINS represents those communities in the Grady cluster. That cluster's schools include:

  •  Centennial Place
  • Hope-Hill Elementary
  • Grady High
  • Inman Middle
  • Intown Academy
  • Mary Lin Elementary
  • Morningside Elementary
  • Springdale Park Elementary
The candidates are: 

District 1:
  • Leslie Grant
  • Brenda Muhammad (Incumbent)
District 2:
  • Byron Amos (Incumbent/Unopposed)
District 3:
  • Matt Westmoreland (Unopposed)
District 7 (at-large):
  • Nisha Simama
  • Courtney English (Incumbent)
District 8 (at-large):
  • Cynthia Briscoe-Brown
  • Mark Riley
  • Tom Tidwell
  • Dave Walker
  • Reuben McDaniel (Incumbent)

District 9 (at-large):

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  • Eddie Lee Brewster
  • James Esteves
  • Lori James
  • Ed Johnson
  • Sean Norman

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