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ISSUE 7 • September 2017
Power of Cancer
Screenings
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Ribbon Cuttings
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Lanier Tech offers
variety of programs
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Dawson County High School has undergone parking lot improvements to
allow more parking, bus loading capacity and better secure the campus.
The Dawson County Education Perspective
By Dr. Damon Gibbs, Dawson County School Superintendent
Dawson County School District has been eagerly preparing
for the return of its students and staff throughout the summer.
The school district’s employees and teachers will welcome
back approximately 3,400 students for the best year yet.
The school district is ready and prepared to enter phase two of
the 6 th -12 th grade realignment. Dawson County Middle School
will continue to house students in sixth and seventh grades,
while all eighth and ninth-grade students will attend Daw-
son County Junior High School. The realignment will allow
the system to provide more academic opportunities to its
students, which include providing advanced curriculum for
sixth, seventh, and eighth graders and offering academic and
elective high school credit courses to eighth-grade students.
These organizational changes establish a strong foundation for
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