Cobb County's Mableton Elementary School has been awarded the 2011 Panasonic National School Change Award. Only six schools across the county earned this honor, which recognizes schools that have significantly changed beliefs, instructional practices and student achievement. Mableton is only one of three Georgia schools to ever receive the award, according to school officials.

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“Our members cannot be bought off,” General President Sean O’Brien said in a social media statement, calling UPS' offers “illegal and haphazard.” (Hyosub Shin/AJC 2023)

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