Six schools in Cobb and Fulton counties were among metro Atlanta's top 10 performers on this year's high school graduation tests, an AJC analysis shows.
Scoring highest among metro schools with at least 50 test-takers was Cobb's Walton High School, with a 98.4 percent passing rate on the Georgia High School Graduation Tests.
The lowest passing rate in the metro area, 24.2 percent, was Crim High School in Atlanta.
By now, most people have heard -- negatively -- about the 2006 case Ricci v. DeStefano, in which 18 New Haven firefighters (17 white and one Hispanic) were not promoted.
On Tuesday, Comcast rolled out its 50-Mbit/s downstream and 10-Mbit/s upstream "wideband" service to the Washington D.C. metro area, charging just $99.95 for the service, if a user signs up for both wideband and either a TV or voice package.
Starting Friday, all full-power television stations in the United States will stop analog broadcasts and switch to digital. To continue receiving their usual programming.
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