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Yesterday at 1:31 PM  The Crisp County Board of Education approved the hiring of Russell “Rusty” Sowell as the new high school principal this past week

Friday, May 17, 2013  Updated with video; Terrell County will soon have a new elementary school.

Friday, May 17, 2013  Updated with video; Lee County Board of Education officials have accepted the resignation of an educator who was arrested on drug charges.

Wednesday, May 15, 2013  Updated with video; The Dougherty County Board of Education building and grounds committee met Tuesday morning to go over their plans for schools that need a construction upgrade.

Monday, May 13, 2013  In order to make the transportation department more efficient, the Dougherty County Board of Education voted to eliminate two district manager positions and restructure how the entire system runs during their meeting on Monday evening

Monday, April 29, 2013  The Lee County Board of Education is considering new graduation requirements, saying technology is having a major impact on education.

Wednesday, April 17, 2013  In FOX 31’s Facebook story of the day people wanted to know how the president's budget would affect public health and education in southwest Georgia.

Monday, March 18, 2013  Lee County parents have been standing in line and in some cases, camping out for a chance to register their child for Pre-K program.

Wednesday, March 13, 2013  Updated with video; In February, the Tift County Board of Education asked a committee for some information to be presented on possibly implementing school uniforms, now the board has to decide whether or not to adopt the new dress code based off of feedback.

Monday, March 11, 2013  It was a night full of updates for the Lee County Board of Education, who met on Monday evening to get an idea of where different projects within the schools stand.

Friday, March 01, 2013  Updated with video; Tift County Public Schools are currently under a system-wide bomb threat.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013  Now that the new Lee County middle school has been named, the next step was to decide how to split up all of the faculty and students for the 2013-2014 school year, which was voted on during Monday night’s Lee County Board of Education Meeting.

Monday, February 04, 2013  Updated with video; It was standing room only as the Dougherty County School Board held the first of two public hearings regarding the possible closure of schools.

Thursday, January 31, 2013  Updated with video; Dougherty County Board of Education members met Wednesday afternoon to hear a presentation regarding rezoning and repurposing of several schools throughout the system.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013  Updated with video; After parents expressed their concern following what they thought was a high number of absences in their children's class, Fox 31 reached out to the Lee County Board of Education who said although there are always sicknesses in the winter, this year is no worse than previous years.