Georgia Project

Kathy Cox has been Georgia’s superintendent of public schools since 2003 and she is the first person to win the million-dollar prize on the game show Are You Smarter Than a 5^th Grader.

Since Kathy has been in office, one of her many accomplishments has been a new statewide curriculum for the Georgia Performance Standards. This new curriculum was instituted to assist students in preparing for college and the work world.

On Friday, September 5, 2008 Cox was able to answer the million-dollar question and thus, won the grand prize. She intends to donate the winnings to three schools in Georgia: Georgia Academy for the Blind in Macon, Georgia School for the Deaf in Cave Spring, and Atlanta Area School for the Deaf in Clarkston.  I’m sure that she will have some say in how the money is spent, so it should be put to good use.

We are beginning to have some cool mornings.  It sure is nice to walk outside and feel that cool crispness in the air to start the day.  Granted the temperatures are still reaching the mid to high 80′s most afternoons and it is definitely not time to turn off the AC yet.

One forecast for the Atlanta area calls for low temperatures in the low 60s and high temperatures in the low 80s for the next two days.  Wednesday and Thursday are slated to be cooler with lows in the mid 50s and high temperatures in the mid 70s.