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The Exceptional Student Services office announces its intention to destroy special education records on July 31, 2022. The destruction of records will affect students born in 1999.

Elizabeth Cox will serve as the new district instructional coach for Dalton Public Schools, effective July 1. Cox currently serves as an instructional math coach at Dalton High School. Cox replaces Brandi Moore who was recently promoted to director of school support for the district. 

Veronica Vital has been approved by the Dalton Board of Education as the new assistant principal for Blue Ridge School for the 2022-23 school year.

At the end of the school year, 18 employees will retire from Dalton Public Schools. Those 18 individuals represent 310 years of experience in Dalton Public Schools and 458 years of experience in education.

For his hard work and dedication to Dalton Public Schools, Jorge Miranda was named the 2022 Dale Cook Support Educator of the Year. 

This semester, Dalton Junior High School premiered over 20 new clubs designed to engage students and provide homes for their hobbies.

Citizens of Whitfield County/Dalton will soon be heading to the polls to cast their ballot in the mid-term elections. On the ballot will be the question to continue the one-cent sales tax for education or ESPLOST.

City Park School recently celebrated their first Jasmine Day in remembrance of the late Yasmin Singh, a long-time Dalton Public Schools special education paraprofessional who passed away from cancer in late 2021.

At the beginning of the 2021-2022 school year, the district’s school nutrition department was facing an unprecedented staff shortage. In a brand-new partnership with the high school Work Based Learning program, Dalton Public Schools is filling those vacant positions using student workers.