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Friday, January 18, 2013

News Nearby: Driver Charged in Fatal Pedestrian Accident in Gwinnett

The driver, Sharon Mitchell-Golden, of Stone Mountain, has been charged in the accident that killed a Berkmar High teen.

From Lawrenceville Patch Gwinnett County Police say the driver involved in the fatal pedestrian accident on Lawrenceville Highway Wednesday morning has now been charged. In a release, GCPD Cpl. Jake Smith said Sharon Mitchell-Golden, 49, of Stone Mountain, turned herself in to police Thursday. Mitchell-Golden has been charged with second degree vehicular homicide, a misdemeanor, and driving more than 300 feet in the center turn lane.  Mitchell-Golden reportedly struck 17-year-old Dakota M. Waters, a Lawrenceville resident and a Berkmar High student, as he tried to cross Lawrenceville Highway between Hamilton Road and James Road at around 7:30am. Waters was reportedly standing in the center lane as Mitchell-Golden was unable to stop her …

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Teach for America to Put “Best and Brightest" Grads in Gwinnett Schools

New teaching positions will be in the Meadowcreek, Norcross and Berkmar clusters next school year.

In the 2011-2012 school year, 75 young teachers will show up to work in Gwinnett County Schools. Some come from Ivy League Schools and most will be from the top of their class. They could have studied history, art, business and law—but none would have studied education. They are participants in the national Teach for America  program. The mission is to put “outstanding recent college graduates… in urban and rural communities in our nation’s lowest-income communities.”  The idea is to close the achievement gap and eliminate “educational inequity” nationwide but putting the brightest, freshest minds on the job—and the program has been doing gangbusters so far, according to some research. Since TFA expanded to metro Atlanta in 2000, 900 …

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