After AP investigation, family of missing students enrolls in school
Associated PressATLANTA — Four months after The Associated Press wrote about an Atlanta family struggling to enroll in school, all of the children — in a complete turnaround — returned to class last month. But school staff had largely stopped trying to contact Tameka’s family until an AP reporter started inquiring about them last year, according to communication logs shared by the district. After AP published its story about Tameka and continued making inquiries, the school contacted the state’s child welfare department at least once, according to district spokesman Seth Coleman. Tameka’s three older children — ages 9, 13 and 14 — didn’t return to in-person school when Atlanta reopened in the fall of 2021. After the December story about Tameka’s struggle to enroll her children in school, an Atlanta Public Schools social worker visited her home in January — the first attempted in-person contact by the district in nearly three years, according to school records.
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