Tameka had lost most of her family’s official documents when her partner died of a heart attack in May 2020, at the height of pandemic chaos. He was carrying the family’s birth certific…
ATLANTA — 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. The project on Monday was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Atlanta Public Schools received $332 million in federal recovery money to help students rebound from pandemic learning loss and return to school. 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.
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. The school district removed the children from the rolls when they missed 10 straight days, citing a state regulation. Without his income, and unable to work because she needed to watch the young children, Tameka had little money. The family of five got by on food stamps and $900 a month in government assistance.So when she received a refundable tax credit of around $6,000 in March, it was a much-needed opportunity to buy a new phone. “I was mobile again. I could use the phone to call an Uber or Lyft,” said Tameka, who doesn’t have a driver’s license and lives far from public transit.
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