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As of May 10, 2025, Patricia "Granny P" Crayton did not have a website or any information online.

College & Career Readiness

Equity

School System Budget

COVID

Patricia "Granny P" Crayton

Sept 30 2021

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Plans to provide wrap-around service support for students and families and to equip classrooms with supportive policies, training, and resources.

Thinks that that wrap-around services and other behavioral support interventions can change the student achievement outcomes for underperforming students.

Believes schools must reach underperforming and under-resourced students through culturally responsive and inclusionary teaching.

- Plans to provide wrap-around service support for students and families and to equip classrooms with supportive policies, training, and resources.
- Thinks that that wrap-around services and other behavioral support interventions can change the student achievement outcomes for underperforming students. 
- Believes schools must reach underperforming and under-resourced students through culturally responsive and inclusionary teaching.

As of May 10, 2025, KaCey Venning’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Believes education should prepare students with life skills that not equip them for work or post-secondary education and navigating adulthood

Supports vocational training and entrepreneurial skills training

- Believes education should prepare students with life skills that not equip them for work or post-secondary education and navigating adulthood
- Supports vocational training and entrepreneurial skills training

KaCey Venning

April 30

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Plans to expand CTAE (Career, Technical, and Agricultural Education) and vocational training opportunities.

Supports creating a permanent Curriculum Council to advise the district on making curriculum better at preparing students for present-day professional opportunities

Supports creating a one-semester financial literacy course available to all high school students

Promises access to early education and Pre-K for all families, prioritizing families that cannot afford enrolling in a private preschool

Supports a greater focus on literacy and the district’s Literacy Plan to make sure all students are reading at grade level by the end of fifth grade while also expanding individualized literacy coaching for middle and high school students

- Plans to expand CTAE (Career, Technical, and Agricultural Education) and vocational training opportunities.
- Supports creating a permanent Curriculum Council to advise the district on making curriculum better at preparing students for present-day professional opportunities
- Supports creating a one-semester financial literacy course available to all high school students
- Promises access to early education and Pre-K for all families, prioritizing families that cannot afford enrolling in a private preschool
- Supports a greater focus on literacy and the district’s Literacy Plan to make sure all students are reading at grade level by the end of fifth grade while also expanding individualized literacy coaching for middle and high school students

Plans to require that every school place students in classes so that each class is relatively representative of the school’s racial diversity

Proposes redistricting current school zones to to encourage economic and racial diversity among all school clusters and adjusting the Student Success Funding Formula to move money to schools with a high rate pf poverty

Plans to work with the Department of Special Education to increase opportunities for students with disabilities to engage with and learn alongside their peers without disabilities

Promises to partner with MARTA to provide access to free public transportation to all middle and high school students

Wants to prioritize the use of materials created by people of color, women, LGBTQ+ people, and individuals from other historically underrepresented groups and to require teaching black history and ethnic studies.

- Plans to require that every school place students in classes so that each class is relatively representative of the school’s racial diversity
- Proposes redistricting current school zones to to encourage economic and racial diversity among all school clusters and adjusting the Student Success Funding Formula to move money to schools with a high rate pf poverty 
- Plans to work with the Department of Special Education to increase opportunities for students with disabilities to engage with and learn alongside their peers without disabilities
- Promises to partner with MARTA to provide access to free public transportation to all middle and high school students
- Wants to prioritize the use of materials created by people of color, women, LGBTQ+ people, and individuals from other historically underrepresented groups and to require teaching black history and ethnic studies.

Supports increasing funding to hire parent liaisons, with the goal of having one at every school

Plans to get student input when discussing the strategic plan and budget

Promises to close the teacher experience gap by providing financial incentives to attract and retain highly experienced teachers at schools with a poverty rate of 70% or more

- Supports increasing funding to hire parent liaisons, with the goal of having one at every school
- Plans to get student input when discussing the strategic plan and budget
- Promises to close the teacher experience gap by providing financial incentives to attract and retain highly experienced teachers at schools with a poverty rate of 70% or more

As of May 10, 2025, Royce Carter Mann’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Royce Carter Mann

Spring 10/25/21 -Campaign Contribution Disclosure Report

Spring-Campaign Contribution Disclosure Report

Argues that the current board spends large amounts of money in wasteful areas like personnel, assessments, and unnecessary curriculum oversight.

Said "I am your candidate and I am uniquely qualified to interrupt the system."

Promises to reallocate money to classrooms so that students have  quality, well-paid teachers, relevant curriculum resources and reduced class sizes.

- Argues that the current board spends large amounts of money in wasteful areas like personnel, assessments, and unnecessary curriculum oversight.
- Said "I am your candidate and I am uniquely qualified to interrupt the system."
- Promises to reallocate money to classrooms so that students have  quality, well-paid teachers, relevant curriculum resources and reduced class sizes.

Believes the school system over-tests children, causing them to miss out on time learning the actual curriculum.

Argues that over-relying on tests leads to greater inequities in schools and causes students to miss out on the education they deserve.

Promises to vote to defund standardized testing in Atlanta public schools.

- Believes the school system over-tests children, causing them to miss out on time learning the actual curriculum.
- Argues that over-relying on tests leads to greater inequities in schools and causes students to miss out on the education they deserve.
 - Promises to vote to defund standardized testing in Atlanta public schools.

Promises to empower GoTeams, PTAs, and other formal and informal parent-teacher-community groups to enact programs and policies that they know work for their children.

Plans to create living wage job pathways for students by "allowing school communities to make programmatic/curricular decisions and make real decisions with real money."

- Promises to empower GoTeams, PTAs, and other formal and informal parent-teacher-community groups to enact programs and policies that they know work for their children.
- Plans to create living wage job pathways for students by "allowing school communities to make programmatic/curricular decisions and make real decisions with real money."

Said, "teachers and staff and our students over the age in which the FDA has approved vaccines must get vaccines."

- Said, "teachers and staff and our students over the age in which the FDA has approved vaccines must get vaccines."

Stephen Spring

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Believes the Board must "build bridges between the past and the future, between a school and its surrounding community, between APS clusters, between schoolwork and a child's lived experience" to prepare children for life "no matter their background or circumstances or individual needs"

Hopes to build a "sustainable engagement structure that outlives school board members or administrations"

- Believes the Board must "build bridges between the past and the future, between a school and its surrounding community, between APS clusters, between schoolwork and a child's lived experience" to prepare children for life "no matter their background or circumstances or individual needs"
- Hopes to build a "sustainable engagement structure that outlives school board members or administrations"

Wants to change the system's fragmented approach to funding for wellness by coming up with a comprehensive wellness strategy.

- Wants to change the system's fragmented approach to funding for wellness by coming up with a comprehensive wellness strategy.

Wants to teach kids "how to be students," including time management, breaking down assignments into smaller parts, maintaining a calendar and financial literacy.

- Wants to teach kids "how to be students," including time management, breaking down assignments into smaller parts, maintaining a calendar and financial literacy.

Wants to develop a comprehensive Emergency Operations Plan to address multiple threats, including infectious diseases, and share the plan with the community.

- Wants to develop a comprehensive Emergency Operations Plan to address multiple threats, including infectious diseases, and share the plan with the community.

Tamara Jones

- The Board of Education runs the public school system, and it is entirely independent from the rest of the city government. 
- Board of Education members work together to make school policy, set the budget, and appoint the superintendent to run the schools day to day. 
- Some Board of Education members are elected by the entire city, while others represent specific districts. 
- Board of Education members are elected to four-year terms in nonpartisan elections.
