The East Lake Foundation has received a $1.1 million donation to launch a new leadership program at Drew Charter School. The program will be called the Tom Cousins and Billy … Continue Reading →
SOURCE: Decaturish
The East Lake Foundation has received a $1.1 million donation to launch a new leadership program at Drew Charter School. The program will be called the Tom Cousins and Billy … Continue Reading →
SOURCE: Decaturish
Riding the bus from a public housing development to the richest neighborhood in Atlanta changed Shannon Heath Longino’s life. Longino was just two weeks old when she moved with her grandmother to East Lake Meadows, a newly built public housing community at the easternmost edge of Atlanta.
SOURCE: Truist
Biomedical Engineering PhD student and a former member of the First Tee of Metro Atlanta Jakari Harris joins Golf Central to discuss the role that golf has had in shaping her future.
SOURCE: Golf Channel
Atlanta Public Schools’ four-year graduation rate reached 83.1% for the class of 2021. That’s an increase from the year before, when it was 80.3%. Drew Charter School had the second highest graduation rate in Atlanta Public Schools (99%), close behind Coretta Scott King Young Women’s Leadership Academy.
SOURCE: Atlanta Journal Constitution
Despite challenges stemming from the coronavirus pandemic including an absence of paying spectators, last year’s PGA TOUR Championship event at East Lake Golf Club raised a record-breaking $3.56 million for four local nonprofit organizations: East Lake Foundation; Grove Park Foundation; Purpose Built Schools Atlanta; and First Tee Metro Atlanta. Prospects are good for another record-breaking outcome for the same quartet of local beneficiaries when The TOUR Championship returns to East Lake Golf Cub Sept. 2-5.
SOURCE: Atlanta Business Chronicle
Marcus Leonard and Tatum Thompson thought they had been invited to the Tour Championship’s media day to participate in a putting contest with eight-time PGA Tour winner and East Lake member Stewart Cink.
SOURCE: Atlanta Journal Constitution
When Julia Watkins asked kids where their food came from, she often heard the same response: “From the grocery store.” Hearing that answer and having worked at a farmers market … Continue Reading →
SOURCE: Atlanta Journal Constitution
Drew Charter School Senior, Jordan McCrary, has been accepted to more than 75 colleges and universities and has received more than $1 million in scholarship offers.
Students from drew charter school are painting a Black Lives Matter mural as a distinctive expression of activism. “They’re being art-a-vist art activist, they’re using art for activism,” said visual Arts teacher Dr.Lisa Whittington’s.
SOURCE: CBS 46 - Atlanta
WSB’s People 2 People highlighted Drew Charter School’s State Science Fair success. Our partner, Delta Community Credit Union, presented them with new savings accounts as a reward for their success.
SOURCE: WSB TV Atlanta