Royce was born and raised in Georgia. He is a nineteen year old.

Royce is a recent graduate of the Atlanta Public School system. He is a first-year Woodruff-MLK Jr. scholar and political science major at Emory University. He co-founded Students for Ossoff & Warnock to mobilize thousands of young Georgians to elect Georgia's new Senators. He has worked as a Legislative Director for March for Our Lives Georgia. Royce was involved in student government, started a chapter of Amnesty International, and was appointed to be the student member of the GO-Team. He also led the effort to rename Grady High School and interned for the Board of Education.

Royce Carter Mann's campaign for the board of education is his first entry into politics.

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Plans to expand CTAE (Career, Technical, and Agricultural Education) and vocational training opportunities.

Supports creating a permanent Curriculum Council to advise the district on making curriculum better at preparing students for present-day professional opportunities

Supports creating a one-semester financial literacy course available to all high school students

Promises access to early education and Pre-K for all families, prioritizing families that cannot afford enrolling in a private preschool

Supports a greater focus on literacy and the district’s Literacy Plan to make sure all students are reading at grade level by the end of fifth grade while also expanding individualized literacy coaching for middle and high school students

- Plans to expand CTAE (Career, Technical, and Agricultural Education) and vocational training opportunities.
- Supports creating a permanent Curriculum Council to advise the district on making curriculum better at preparing students for present-day professional opportunities
- Supports creating a one-semester financial literacy course available to all high school students
- Promises access to early education and Pre-K for all families, prioritizing families that cannot afford enrolling in a private preschool
- Supports a greater focus on literacy and the district’s Literacy Plan to make sure all students are reading at grade level by the end of fifth grade while also expanding individualized literacy coaching for middle and high school students

College & Career Readiness

Plans to require that every school place students in classes so that each class is relatively representative of the school’s racial diversity

Proposes redistricting current school zones to to encourage economic and racial diversity among all school clusters and adjusting the Student Success Funding Formula to move money to schools with a high rate pf poverty

Plans to work with the Department of Special Education to increase opportunities for students with disabilities to engage with and learn alongside their peers without disabilities

Promises to partner with MARTA to provide access to free public transportation to all middle and high school students

Wants to prioritize the use of materials created by people of color, women, LGBTQ+ people, and individuals from other historically underrepresented groups and to require teaching black history and ethnic studies.

- Plans to require that every school place students in classes so that each class is relatively representative of the school’s racial diversity
- Proposes redistricting current school zones to to encourage economic and racial diversity among all school clusters and adjusting the Student Success Funding Formula to move money to schools with a high rate pf poverty 
- Plans to work with the Department of Special Education to increase opportunities for students with disabilities to engage with and learn alongside their peers without disabilities
- Promises to partner with MARTA to provide access to free public transportation to all middle and high school students
- Wants to prioritize the use of materials created by people of color, women, LGBTQ+ people, and individuals from other historically underrepresented groups and to require teaching black history and ethnic studies.

Equity

Supports increasing funding to hire parent liaisons, with the goal of having one at every school

Plans to get student input when discussing the strategic plan and budget

Promises to close the teacher experience gap by providing financial incentives to attract and retain highly experienced teachers at schools with a poverty rate of 70% or more

- Supports increasing funding to hire parent liaisons, with the goal of having one at every school
- Plans to get student input when discussing the strategic plan and budget
- Promises to close the teacher experience gap by providing financial incentives to attract and retain highly experienced teachers at schools with a poverty rate of 70% or more

School System Budget

As of August 9, 2021, Royce Carter Mann’s website did not contain information on this issue.

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- The Board of Education runs the public school system, and it is entirely independent from the rest of the city government. 
- Board of Education members work together to make school policy, set the budget, and appoint the superintendent to run the schools day to day. 
- Some Board of Education members are elected by the entire city, while others represent specific districts. 
- Board of Education members are elected to four-year terms in nonpartisan elections.
