ATLANTA — Paul Bianchi, the founding head of The Paideia School in Atlanta and a fixture in Georgia’s education community, has died at 79. He passed away peacefully at his Atlanta home on Saturday, May 10, according to the school.
Bianchi led Paideia from 1971 to 2023 and continued teaching even after stepping down. In a statement, the school called him a man who “devoted his life to doing right by children.”
Bianchi accepted the role of head when he was just 25. “Let the record reflect that I was selected from a list on which there were no other candidates,” he said of the early days, “to head up a school that had no buildings, no faculty, no students and no money.”…