For Immediate Release

Contact: Charles White

Director

CCPS Communications

Telephone: (770) 472-8437

April 29, 2011

CCPS to broadcast graduation ceremonies again

Exercises to be aired live on the district’s website

JONESBORO - For many graduating seniors throughout Clayton County with loved ones serving in the military, each deployment away from home brings the possibility of a missed opportunity for a true family celebration. It is also a fact that our economy may have caused some family members to leave their loved ones in our area in order to secure or continue employment elsewhere.

In an effort to help our families reconnect, Clayton County Public Schools is continuing a communications outreach by making each graduation ceremony available for live viewing.

This initiative, in its fifth year, will allow those who cannot make it to the ceremony an opportunity to watch their children, or their relatives, graduate through a live broadcast. The graduation exercises can be viewed via the school district’s website, www.clayton.k12.ga.us, May 23-24, 2011. The eight graduation ceremonies will be broadcast using a broadband high-speed streaming video, via the Internet.

To view the ceremony of choice

Simply go to www.clayton.k12.ga.us and click on the proper link on the home page. You will be able to watch an entire live broadcast of a graduation ceremony. Graduation ceremonies average about 1½ hours in length. All live broadcasts take place at the Georgia Dome in downtown Atlanta and will begin at the time indicated below:

Monday, May 23, 2011

• Mount Zion High School                                9:00 a.m.
• North Clayton High School                           12:00 p.m.
• Morrow High School                                       3:00 p.m.
• Forest Park High School                                 7:00 p.m.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

• Lovejoy High School                                        9:00 a.m.
• Mundy’s Mill High School                             12:00 p.m.
• Riverdale High School                                     3:00 p.m.
• Jonesboro High School                                  7:00 p.m.

For more information, contact the Department of Communications, 770-473-2735, Ext 4.

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Charles White